Re: Build system (was: SVG format in ...)

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Marcin Antczak">

> You are assuming that every possible application for gtk/gnome is
> available in binary form for my distribution what in my opinion is not
> true.
> 
> I use RH 9 which is (I think) most popular linux distribution, but I still
> have to build/compile/whatever a lot of applications.

Well, to be honest, that is a problem with your distribution. My distro does
not keep me wanting for software. :-)

> And more - what if I want to have application with different options
> than it is by default?

Then the application is broken.

- Jeff

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