Why isn't everyone compiling wine

[phrostie]

it's not that i'm afraid of compiling my own, but with the package managers in 
modern distributions it's normally best to keep everything under the control 
of rpm, dpkg, apt-get or what ever. 

On Sat May 22 2004 06:21 am, Kristiaan Lenaerts wrote:
> Hi
>
> My guess is that a lot of people are afraid of compiling. I have to
> admit I did the same when I just started using linux, having to learn
> how to install a program, using a package-manager... I was afraid of
> using self-compiled things, because I had no idea how to uninstall it if
> it did't work. Working with packages gives *some* comfort, because
> that's easy to use, and that's the way the system installed itself (and
> updates itself).
>
> Also, not knowing where programs go after they are compiled, what all
> those "/usr/lib /usr/bin ..." dirs are, what has to go where... It is so
> comfusing at first, that I can imagine that most people (I did) just use
> the package manager, it just works (most of the time).
>
> But I do agree, since I started compiling wine (gentoo - now using the
> cvs), a lot of things just worked that didn't before. Now, it is well
> possible that has more to do with the version of wine, than actually
> compiling it yourself, but the packages are outdated most of the time...
>
> just my experience...
>
> Krist
>
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