Re: [TCLUG:20305] Package formats (was: Re: suidperl)

[blutgens@sistina.com]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 10:01:19AM -0500, Gabe Turner wrote:
>> 
>
>> about the Slackwareians, though ;-)
>
>	Right... a tarball with a script is much to simple for RedHat's
>	overly complicated vision of the world.  Personally, I love Slacks
>	packaging system... Doesn't get in the way of compiling from
>	source.

Yeah, I personally love the thought of a file overwriting my /etc/passwd with
something else without my knowledge. 

None of the packaging systems prevent you from building from source. Noone say
you can't set  your make install path to /usr/local/my_source_installs_path or
whatever. The key difference is, if I am building something from source, and
make fails I can look at that and go "Hmm...o.k. $apt-get install
<missing-header-file>" rerun make and I am golden.



>
>Gabe

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