> I was writing about memory usage, not system size.
Oh, mea culpa, I was about disk size...
> Were there any efforts undertook to bring to SL/RH world NetBSD's pkgsrc
> package management?
> It is based on one fact - that all applications are born in source first. :)
> Second, all binaries go to /usr/pkg directory! No more /usr, /usr/local, etc
> Linux direcotory idiosyncrasy
Jesus Christ! (Insert your God here, Richard Dawkins allowed too :-))
RHEL's (or TUV's) rebuilds like SL and CentOS are _meant_ to be STABLE! I guess
you want Fedora for trying all kind of tricky stuff, right? (If Fedora is too
buggy, it's not my fault.)
Really, I suppose people would tell you that most of the 3rd-party repos are
actually "not recommended" to be used, and even EPEL... oh wait, let's say EPEL
_might_ be a good choice, I can't tell yet. But as long as you mess with your
system, you're on your own anyway. (With the original upstream distro, once
you've added a 3rd party package, your system is not supported anymore if you
have an issue!)
I know pkgsrc is a great idea, it's just you should rather try to use it with
Gentoo or Slackware, not with SL5 :-)
As for "all applications are born in source first", I agree, but I strongly
disagree with the fact that you should compile a lot of packages -- this is why
I refuse to use Gentoo: after all,:
(1) FLOSS means you have the sources, for the case you would *want* to
build/fix/modify/rebuild, but you shouldn't be *forced* to build from sources!
(2) It's 101% un-ecological! Why having 2,000 people wasting their CPU time and
lifetime to build the same package 2,000 times, when a single-time build +
establishing a binary repository would be definitely a better approach?
IMHO, you should only build from sources when: (a) the application is of less
interest so you're not upstream-provided with a binary package; (b) you want to
try the latest and hottest version; (c) you want to fix some bugs and rebuild
it.
This is why people should try to use binary packages with EL clones.
Cheers,
R-C
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