On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, -JhAzEr- wrote:

> i think what ian wanted to say is, that you *must* have a packaging
> system to be able to maintain your systems. whether it's
> rpm/apt/urpmi/pkgtool etc.

Ah sweet success! \8)  Finally the point is brought across.  Thanks!

> i think maintainability (as per your definition of it)  only applies
> to enterprise servers or mission critical servers, where re-installing
> is a SCARY process ;)

For enterprise computing its an absolute must.  For other deployments it's
_encouraged_;  In much the same way that we encourage using SSH in
private-only, non-public linux servers.  It gets you in the habit, it
makes for a cleaner and maintable system, it raises the level of
competency.


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