On Feb 11, 2008, at 7:24 PM, Daryl Hoffman wrote:
I would be interested in knowing the benefits of this over installing from the tar files or sharing the binaries across multiple images? Does this "speed up" or make the installation easier? Does this make it installable on the root partition and why would one want to do that?
If you have your packages managed by a package management system, then you have a tool which tells you what version it is, can know that it needs to apply security updates if necessary, and it means that you only have to look in one place to tell what version of everything you're running. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
