Hi there, On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, several authors wrote:
> > Why do people like to install from source instead from packages? > > ... manually installing software ... would be the very last resort.
Sometimes packages are out of date. For Debian, they can be ridiculously out of date and sometimes there isn't even any maintained package at all. Although I use Debian a lot because it saves me a lot of time for things like security updates, much of the time I'll install from source because I want a reasonably up-to-date version of whatever it is I happen to be installing.
> I agree! I am OCD about keeping even my personal systems clean...
It's subjective. You stick to the packages, I make notes. Apparently we both think of our systems as 'clean'.
> ...and I hate the idea that ... ... at least the Debian project seems to have a strong opinion ...
Opinions are fine, but sometimes they border on the irrational, and if they get embodied into packages they can be forced onto other people. If a package embodies opinion which I don't share I probably won't use it, so I have to decide whether to make my own package or build from source. The main thing that I've had to build a Debian package for is the kernel, because on some hardware that I have to support the Debian version runs several orders of magnitude slower than the one I build. Almost everything else which isn't stock Debian stable would be simple source installations. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
