[PLUG] Package management (was : Q: comparison of video formats)

Brent Rieck bsr at spek.org
Fri Sep 5 08:39:01 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 07:52, AthlonRob wrote:
> Any binary-based package management system, IMHO, sucks totally.  I use
> binary packages only as a last resort, because they tend to be
> cumbersome and ugly.  If you start throwing wild dependencies into the
> mix, it only gets uglier.
> 
> Gentoo's portage system I can stand to use.  It's *very simple* to get
> it to do exactly what I want it to do, then it tracks packages enough to
> make uninstallation simple enough.  On any real... production system...
> I compile most everything from source, using Slackware's setup as a nice
> customizable base.

Why do you prefer to manually manage dependencies and compile from
source?

--Brent




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