JOSEPH A NAGY JR said: > This is why I HATE using binaries. Dependency hell. I've had much better > luck installing from source (at least on my RH system). First (and last) > time I tried installing from source on my deb system was a failure as > well.
there is no dependency hell if the binaries are well tested. You said you were using unstable..well thats what you get for using unstable :) having compiled many things from source myself over the years my experience is that source compilations are much more likely to have dependency hell then binary. The worst such example in my experience was earlier releases of gnome, I remember back in...1999? I was compiling gnome, took about 12 hours, and ~40 different source packages to get it up and going. I had to completely trash my debian 2.1 install when debian 2.2 came out as I was still in a "compile from source" mode at the time, and my debian 2.1 system was SO incredibly overrun by self built binaries, everything from X, to who knows what else that upgrading to 2.2 would of fried it all I think. A more modern example would be to try to build something like openldap(with all the options debian uses) on something like solaris. I think it took me about 6 hours..and though I am not a developer I have compiled several thousand(?) apps in my time so I'm quite good at it.. now if for some reason you like the bleeding edge, source may be the only way to go. I used to like the bleeding edge several years ago but am much more conservative now, and much less headaches as a result(i.e. none). All my debian systems run woody, including my desktops & laptop(& soon my zaurus). I personally don't care about the latest KDE, gnome, openoffice, mozilla, antialiased fonts, font "hinting", the latest X, the latest cyrus or openldap...probably why my systems usually are so stable..no bleeding edge stuff. On occasion I do recompile debs from testing to woody(spamassasin comes to mind), but I always check the buglist before doing so. As a result however I am very careful at picking my hardware for my linux machines. just got done fighting with Network UPS Tools on redhat 7.3, for some reason the *newer* version of this package on redhat does not include the cyberpower driver, and yet the *older* version on debian does, like you I had to compile from source to get it working. Tried using the old driver on the newer package but the UPS client software refused to communicate with it(though the server side was working fine). but that's me. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
