getting started

[Gunther Piez]

On Friday 25 June 2010 19:04:40 Kishore wrote:
> > non-starter here, I'm afraid. I've been in dependency hell too often to
> > ever again want to try circumventing the distro packaging system for
> > support libraries.

> Well! It's really not that bad.

Yes, I use to build from git too on a gentoo, which is somewaht prone to get 
into dependency hell, and it works out quite ok. At the beginnig I had some 
leftovers from the official packages, but since I have cleaned them out, I had 
no issues.

- Gunther