Hi,
Before Debian, I used to roll my own. I used to spend hours
and hours, chasing down sources, removing all incompatibilities I
could detect (and fix), compiling them, dealing with bad versions,
and, alas, very little of the software was truly well behaved.
I think precompiled binaries save me a load of time -- without
this, I could no longer afford the luxury of a free system. Is that
justification enough for the .deb packages?
Ideally, all sources shall be well behaved, and they all would
follow a file heirarchy standrard, and they all would mesh into
place, and there shall be now wars, famines, or floods, and imagine,
a world with no conflicts -- unfortunately, Lennon was right, and we
are dreamers, the two of us; but Debian lives in the madness we call
real world.
alack, and well-a-day.
manoj
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