Package pruning for FC4 and beyond - COMPLETE LIST

Ralf Ertzinger fedora-devel at camperquake.de
Mon Feb 28 16:24:20 UTC 2005


Hi.

"Paul A. Houle" <ph18 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> source.  (./configure ; make ; make install isn't much harder than "yum 
> install" and it's more likely to work.)

And it's one of the fastest ways to turn a package managed system into an
absolute mess unless you know quite well what you're doing.

-- 
Percussive Maintenance: The fine art of whacking the c**p out of an
electronic device to get it to work again.




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