13 Dec
2006
13 Dec
'06
9:05 p.m.
Vince Werber wrote:
I keep a log of what libs I install but for the life
of me... I can't remember
what I do have without the log... so... I guess I do it too! <heh>
Quite honstly, i think almost nobody should be installing libraries
from source. Rather, I think people should install the pre-packaged
library from their distribution.
The only exception to the above, is developers actually working on
the library and the hopefully rare cases where a developer needs to
test a bleedign edge version of a library that the distribution
has not yet packaged.
As a library author myself, the only two libraries on my system that
were installed from source are libsndfile and libsamplerate.
Erik
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Erik de Castro Lopo
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"It's not that perl programmers are idiots, it's that the
language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other
language or tool has ever done." -- Erik Naggum