On Sun, 2021-01-10 at 15:08 +0000, G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users wrote: > 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 Sometimes packages are out of date.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 ridiculously out of date and sometimes there isn't even any maintained 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'.
This! -------------------------------------------------^ Notes. Over the years I've learned to keep notes for most anything I do to my systems. A few years back I started using gitlab for that, including but not limited to scripts, setups and so on. I found it easier to just clone my git repos when I started using vm's "more seriously" at home instead of scping stuff I needed from my private cloud. -- Kind regards, Sorin Srbu Find my OpenPGP public key here: https://cloud.srbu.se/index.php/s/KeEsCCDsG7PZG7N
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