My List of commonly used apps - What's everyone else using?

[James McDonald]

Tim Wunder wrote:

> On 8/24/2004 5:17 PM, I believe that James McDonald wrote:
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>> Net Llama! wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Tim Wunder wrote:
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>>>> What about:
>>>> favorite update tool - yum
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>>> me
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>> LOL, Yes sometimes it's just better to do ./configure && make && make 
>> install
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> Only if you want to make rpm useless...
> Why use a distro if you don't use the distro tools?
> At least use checkinstall, or roll your own rpm....
>
Damn is that why I keep getting trapped in rpm dependency hell? ;) I 
just had a look at the checkinstall website and I think I might start 
having a look at it...

I started using apt for updating my boxes, can't seem to get into yum 
because of the blinking granular header download... The only time I've 
been back to ./configure is when I'm trying to enable a specific feature 
in a package.