On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > I'm guessing he's referring to the modern fad of application sandboxing. > Each application is installed with everything it needs on top of the > basic OS. > > If you have ten Python apps, you'll have ten Python installations. Also > the applications have no way to communicate outside their respective > sandboxes. They can't access each others' files, for example. > > Personally, I tend to stick to this package management strategy: install > whatever is available with yum and write the rest yourself.
Only if by "write" you also include compiling someone else's program from source. I follow that strategy (except that I use apt rather than yum), and there's a fair bit that I build from source but don't write. Granted, that's partly because Debian Stable doesn't include a sufficiently recent Python, for instance, but still, there's a lot to be said for getting libraries (including dev versions) from the repo and building some applications yourself. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
