> > Bottom line for me is, it's my box, I need to override Debian > > occasionally. There used to be (still is?) this thing called `equiv' > > for registering locally installed things with dpkg, but it's more of a > > hassle than I'm willing to put up with for every tarball I > > build. Every once in a while, I set my mind on gradually moving > > completely to src and abandoning Debian.. but hey, I like Debian. > > I don't see why you use potato at all, then. If you're determined to > wreck a "stable" install anyway, why don't you use unstable? At least > you would have had X 4 debs pretty quickly.
Yeah, but unstable is unstable ;) With potato + custom stuff I have a compromise that suits me pretty well. And even unstable doesn't provide every piece of software on the planet. > Sometimes I have that, too. But then I fire up dselect and browse the > list of stuff I have installed, and I realize that I would have to quit > my job if I wanted to manage that by hand. Yeah, massiv props to the GNU/Debian folks for building the most civilized operating system I've seen so far [there's a lot I haven't seen]. My main problem with pure src is, there's like a million files on a typical box, and no guaranteed way to tell which one does what. With a package system (Debian, RPM, ...) I can easily ask questions like "what package owns this file" and "what files does this package own". -chris
