I've tried binary wine packages on a few occasions and *always* had major problems. Wine, and more importantly the things
A user recently accidentally tried the Mandrake RPM on Red Hat and it wouldn't even run notepad. I build with no patches, no special stuff, just configure/make depend/make/make install
Ivan.
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:13:11 +0200, Ivan wrote:
A user recently accidentally tried the Mandrake RPM on Red Hat and it wouldn't even run notepad. I build with no patches, no special stuff, just configure/make depend/make/make install
Yes, that's why we've written tools like apbuild, written the autopackage developers guide etc. All this stuff *is* possible, the fact that the Mandrake packages happen not to work on Red Hat says nothing at all except that they weren't designed to.
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