"R. L. Kleeberger" wrote:
> Quoting Jim Foltz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I am more concerned about my growing dependence on apt and dpkg. In the
> > past I would have first tried to compile the source myself and install
> > it. Now I seem to go out of my way to find a .deb package of the software.
> >
> > What's happening to me?
>
> You are relying on the
> packager to put together a binary that works like it should, check
> dependencies correctly, et cetera.
If it's a Debian package, what's wrong with that? That's what
dependencies are for. The Debian packager is more likely to know
what the dependencies should be than joe-random-user.
> Tarballs end up working much better than
> binaries in the long run,
If this were so, I wouldn't use Debian.
> although they can become a mess.
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