Comment Re:The Two Cultures once again (Score 1) 180
dmorin, you have said what I have been yelling at my screen while reading earlier posts, but in a much nicer way!
Go the binary, get the .deb/.rpm, and you have a (mostly stable, especially with potato) working program straight away. if theres a problem, talk to the author or go get the source... 99.9% of the time there is no problem.
running 'make install' won't help you understand anything about the source, you must spend time to read and track the source. considering i have over 800 packages installed, the compile-all approach would only work will on a 486 with a 100mb hd.
Go the binary, get the
running 'make install' won't help you understand anything about the source, you must spend time to read and track the source. considering i have over 800 packages installed, the compile-all approach would only work will on a 486 with a 100mb hd.
