Re: there has got to be a better way!!! Upgrading GTK+

From: Linønut (linønut_at_bone.com)
Date: 07/08/05 

Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 11:34:28 -0500

George Jones IV poked his little head through the XP firewall and said:

> Which still leaves my original question unanswered. Why do I need to
> update my distro in order to have current toolkits without having to
> compile dependancies for days on end?

It won't take days. Might take one day.

> Why can I not simply install the
> toolkits without having to go through dependancy hell? Why can I not
> take an old distro like, say, Red Hat 6.2 (a fine distro, BTW) and
> update it easily to run more up to date apps? Is there an easier way to
> do this?

Face it, George, time moves on, and libraries get enhanced, and newer
apps depend on the newer features of the libraries. Load the new
libraries. 

-- 
Tux rox!

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