[Gllug] Installing Stuff?

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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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