[Cliff Wells, 05.03.2007]
> 
> On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 22:29 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
> 
> > But installing anything using easy_install - and be it just 
> > into /usr/local - is chaotic and hard to control. easy_install cannot even 
> > remove software properly. So I don't think I would want anything than a 
> > binary deb package on my system. Just as a side note to Shannon Behrens 
> > who said "We're on Ubuntu, and we just use eggs." If you really just 
> > install eggs instead of proper binary packages then your Ubuntu package 
> > management will get into trouble in no time. (For those not familiar with 
> > it: Ubuntu is a sister project of Debian and uses the same package 
> > format.)
> 
> Why is this so?

You can install your Pylons app. and forget about dependencies for next 2 years.
Package maintainers will fix all bugs in related packages.

Sure, developers like ez_install. System administrators don't!

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