Warren Togami wrote:
On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 20:59, Ronnie T Livingston wrote:
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In general there are tremendous time management benefits in sticking to packages. When these security alerts are released, protecting yourself is a trivial amount of effort. Alternatively you can keep around the source trees that you used to install your 3rd party software, so applying patches and re-installing is fairly quick.
I can attest to this. I run slackware variants (basically my own distro in the end) on most of my Linux boxes because of the weird networking things I do (the major distros just don't like setting up tun/tap bridges and such in their startup scripts). This is nice from a config standpoint, as I can do basically whatever I want, but updating things is a pain. I have to recompile and reinstall all the relevant programs/libs by hand every time a security bug comes out.
snip --MonMotha
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