RE: [linux-audio-user] MDK audio distro survey

-----Original Message----- From: linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin@music.columbia.edu]On Behalf Of Austin Acton Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 6:38 AM To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] MDK audio distro survey On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 23:48, Mark Knecht wrote: Hmm, not sure what you mean here. If you want a tutorial on using cvs and building apps from source, you're not going to get that from Mandrake, as we are a binary-based distro. (although we provide urpmi and srpms so you can recompile any rpm for your architecture with a single command). <SNIP> OK, first, please member that not all of us are software people. I design integrated circuits for a living and do music as a hobby. I have absolutely less than zero interest in building RPMs or doing anything of the sort. I have also NEVER used Mandrake, so I cannot speak specifically about anything in that distribution. Now, given that, what I meant was that a specific Mandrake distro might ship Rosegarden, for instance, but it's always an older version than where the developers are currently at. Given that it's out of date, there are times when I need to build from source. How do I do that on Mandrake with a minimum of pain? With Redhat I've had problems because they've change where stuff goes. (Prefix == /usr) I had to find these things out the hard ware. That's not fun and certainly not musical. Beyond that, figuring out dependencies is a mess in Redhat. Probably is for all distributions. But it's the main reason I use PlanetCCRMA instead of doing it all by hand. Any solution to that problem? Has anyone within the Mandrake inner circle considered what it's really like for normal people to use this stuff, and then done anything to make it easier than Redhat? I'd probably build a Mandrake machine today if the consensus was that this problem was solved! Thanks, Mark