upgrade firefox question
Bob Smith
bob at netprt.com
Wed Jul 21 17:37:26 UTC 2004
>Of course. I have an installation from tarball of gcc 2.95.3 in
>/usr/local for exactly that reason. But there seems to be a tendency on
>the part of some users to grab the tarball first and ask questions later.
>That seems to me to defeat the whole point of having RPMs to begin with.
>So unless there is a good reason not to, I try to recommend RPMs over
>tarballs whenever possible (and checkinstall when it's not possible).
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Absolutely true. If your purpose is to maintain a consistent approach
for maintenance and upgrades, use RPMs where ever and whenever
possible. Saves alot of headaches... :-)
-Bob
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