Re: Packages?! (was: Re: Open Ca-Cert!)

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 18:07, Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Thursday 08 July 2004 4:30 pm, Charlie Schluting wrote:
> > Grishnav wrote:
> > 
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > Gentoo is rice. Binary packages are fast. Debian > *
> >  >
> >  > /flamebait
> >  >
> > 
> > Sure... if the configure options are what you need, its way fast. WTF is up 
> with all these users who 
> > don't know how to compile things? RPMs and all binary packages actually 
> suck.. for the above reason. 
> 
> I bet you still rub sticks to make fire. On servers, obsessive-compulsive 
> compiling, and monitoring every single installed bit makes a bit of sense. On 
> a workstation, forget it. Then you use a nice package-based system with an 
> intelligent dependency-resolver, like apt-get or yum.

Don't forget Pacman!  (archlinux.org) ArchLinux is a really nice distro
and pacman is sweet.

<flame>yum sucks, apt for rpm is much nicer.</flame>

I would insert a smilie in here to make sure people knew I wasn't trying
to be an flaming ass, but I've used my self imposed daily limit of 3
smilies already today...

-Cory