Libraries and dependencies (Re: [Techtalk] "I need to use Windows because ...")

[Poppy]

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 15:51, Mary wrote:


> In the case of Mandrake packages, I would suggest either contacting
> Mandrake and asking them to make the package part of Mandrake in the
> future, or contacting the author and asking them to make the
> dependencies available or to point to them, since it's really only the
> author you can influence, and most of them don't read techtalk :(

That's a really good thought, actually a pair of good thoughts, and I
will have to try that the next time I run into this situation. :)

Guess it shows that I came from windows. The idea of asking the distro
company to add something to their distro never even occurred to me. :P

--Poppy

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