On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:10:59 +1200 Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 ime all package managers, irrespective of them being source or binary, are only as good as the person who set up the dependencies. As humans are involved, there will always be mistakes made. OK, ubuntu was the latest ( although minor! ), but the finger can equally have been pointed at *any* major disribution in recent history. And when gentoo blew up, it was pretty spectacular! I'm not a great fan of gentoo - I feel that it doesn't really do what it purports, and building a system using lfs would be a much more real education - the only advantage with building from source I can see is to squeeze a bit more performance from your hardware, often at the cost of overnight builds again! I see no real difference in yum/apt/emerge... would somebody care to enlighten me? Steve
