On Wednesday 20 September 2006 11:43 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Keep on with the building of the package. > This is the main reason that I will never ever again have anything to do > with a 'binary' distribution. In my exp. they are all glamour and no guts, > garnished with packages suffering from bit-rot, and dependency hell. ( I'd > agree that that particular hell is a lot cooler than it used to be, but my > exp. is that all the distributions suffer from it. )
Chris I think that "your experience" might be a bit dated now. You should try one of the recent Distro releases and refresh your opinion. (IMHO) I recently installed Mepis on my main desktop and everything I need was installed (including all dependancies) without a hassle and in only a couple of hours. Rob
