On Friday 28 January 2005 21:44, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> But doesn't apt-src need a Debian source package in the first place?
> RHEL is quite a bit newer than Debian stable.
>
> How maintainable is Debian if the Debian packages do not suit your
> needs, and you build and install from source)? RedHat is quite maintainable
> that way. Of course, RedHat's habit of linking LDAP into everything does
> irritate me, but I can get rid of most of the crap that it ships with.
>
> For those of you who haven't used ports (or Gentoo, or Rock), do so.
> Some of us use Linux because of the customisation we can do to the
> packages we use. Debian just isn't customisable /and/ maintainable.
Have you ever used debian, btw? Had you used it, you would be saying the
opposite. Use the testing repository. It's quite stable.
> Devdas Bhagat
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