Carl Zwanzig writes: > I suppose that I'm also rather 'old-fashioned" in that my preferred > installation is from source,
When was the last time you installed a BIOS from source?<wink> At some level everybody has to trust their system from that level on down, until it proves itself buggy. I don't think choice of that level is a matter of fashion; pros will be sharpening their own tools, hobbyists go to Sears and buy them off the shelf. > And as Jon said, you can learn quite a bit about what you're installing > just by installing it. Sure. I can't blame people who don't though. As a general principle, it's all too often the case that all you gain is a knowledge of pain. I wouldn't impose installing most GNOME apps from source on my worst enemy. In the case of Mailman, the defaults *don't* suck and the batteries *are* included, it's definitely worth the small amount of extra time spent. > I mean, how many people that install from RPMs even know that there > might be a README file to read, let along to and find it? This is something that has peeved me for a decade. Installers for commercial software usually offer you the README after installation. Why don't pkgsrc and dpkg and rpm and portage and MacPorts do that? (Yes, I suggested that to the dselect maintainer, way back when. I guess I should do it again, now that debconf actually works---it should be possible to adapt similar techniques.) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
