> a) I would not test a new daemon on a working machine, I would use a separate
So? > b) if you know what you are doing, compile the packages by hand, fix their > install scripts, and remove the conflicts. You are trying to circumvent the > norm. If I wanted to compile them by hand, why would I even bother with the Debian packaging system? > Debian is operating on making the easy case easy. 90+% of our users want to > just install a package and go. Perhaps we would have more users if we didn't maintain such a mentality. 90+% of our users probably don't run production servers. Is there some reason you don't want to cater to 100% of our users if possible?