[plug] re opening linuxconf

[The Thought Assassin]

On Sun, 6 May 2001, Beau Kuiper wrote:
> What if a package for said program is not avaliable. What happens if it is
> a significant security fix you are installing on some obscure program
> whose package gets rarely updated.

It is still be faster to install the new version when you have the
configuration of the existing source package as a guide. If you can just
apply a patch to that source package, it becomes faster and easier still.

-Greg Mildenhall