[Gllug] Installing Stuff?

[Ivan Dimitrov]

you make a habbit to check every day freshmeat.net


	   Ivan Dimitrov
	System Administrator
	  Bastun Networks

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 gllug at uncertainty.org.uk wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:53:02AM +0000, Jim Bailey wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > to paraphrase the Mutt guy all package management systems suck even my
> > beloved Debian's dpkg, dselect, apt-get stuff.  I tend to use them to get
> > the basics and simple cmd line tools such as lsof if you want control and
> > to do things properly source code and compile time flags I found it not
> > that difficult after the first couple of times and often it is the only
> > way to get packages to interact the way you want.
> >
>
> I agree - I haven't tried  Debian yet but I have found working from
> source and running RPMs to both be very frustrating - especially in
> terms of tracking dependancies - but also just keeping track of what is
> on your system!
>
> sticking to a distro makes it easier to download thier updates and run
> rpm -F * on them :)
>
> but you lose so much flexibility this way :(
>
> compliling from source is easy enough and you get full power - but you
> have to keep track of any security issues and updates by yourself :(
>
> I have yet to find a good way of keeping tabs on the latest releases of
> source packages - subscribing to a list per package is a pian.
>
> mind you gllug is pretty handy for keeping up to date - there is always
> someone boasting about having just upgraded to the latest thing ;-)
>
> --
>
> Sean
>


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