[plug] re opening linuxconf

[Beau Kuiper]

On Monday 07 May 2001 11:16, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> 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

:-)

I really think this is becoming an issue of whether the glass is half empty 
or half full, where we both see the same things, yet we make different 
conclusions of our observations. We could argue about this forever, and yet 
get nowhere.

Have fun, and I didn't say package tools were evil,
Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au