[Gllug] Red hat 8 subscription

[Martin A. Brooks]

At 11:11 04/06/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>FUD prove it and I will make a public apology.

There are not enough hours in the day to run anything but binary 
distributions in a large scale datacentre.  The nodes do not have compilers 
on, even if they did have the spare CPU time to spend all day compiling stuff.

Gentoo does do binary packages, I know.  However who do I think I'm more 
likely to trust?  A bunch of relatively inexperienced kids who think being 
bleeding edge is cool or several hundred rather grumpy debian package 
maintainers who will start wars over minor changes that could possibly 
break _their_ stuff.

Sorry, the grumpy geeks win every time.

Re. the dpkg via rpm (the tool) debate, I don't think they do the same 
thing so any comparison is flawed.  rpm does not and cannot cope with 
package configuration issues.  It dumps files to disk provided it think 
dependancies have been met - it provides no upgrade path for configuration 
nor migration for data.

Compare and contrast to debian's postgres package.

Regards

Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd
http://www.clues.ltd.uk/ 



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