On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:57:05PM +0000, Brett Parker wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:52:56PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:55:04PM +0000, Tim Green wrote:
On 12/6/05, Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:28:21PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Since a few days ago I have been experiencing problems with the standard build of Firefox as provided within Ubuntu Breezy (1.0.7) and Ebay.
Assume you mean Firefos 1.0.7?? Firefox is not at 1.5.
Oh yes it is! :-) Firefox 1.5 was released a week or so ago.
Most distributions have not updated yet, and I suspect most Gentoo users are still rebuilding ;-)
I just downloaded Firefox 1.5 from www.mozilla.org and installed it, what's with worrying about whether my particular Linux distribution has 'updated' yet?
Because most people care about their system and don't install random stuff in random places? (Having said that, that's what I've got ~/other/local for ;)
For most things I sort of agree with you, I like to use 'proper' Slackware packages when I can, but for browsers and stuff I tend to go direct.
I do also build quite a lot myself from source as I use a few relatively 'rare' programs (like vile/xvile) which simply aren't available as Slackware packages. The configure that comes with most of these tends to put them in /usr/local anyway.
What is lost by having things installed in (possibly) odd places?