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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 03:28:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brion Vibber <brion@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Xamixer 0.1.5
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Jaroslav Kysela wrote:

> > Makefile uses OR on Imakefile OR bob-knows-what... Who needs RPMs or DEBs
> > when you can compile a program to suit your needs so easily?
> 
> Maybe Linux administrators (this is my real job) which are updating
> software on more than 10 machines and they doesn't want do recompilation
> on each ;-))

Sure, but if the machines share a sufficiently common configuration that
you can use the same precompiled packages on them, you can 
configure/compile on one and just do a 'make install' on each from the 
same source tree shared by NFS or removable media.

Admittedly, while I compile a lot of software on my own machine myself, I
do mostly use RPMs at work (I am a part-time system administrator in a
lab at my university) where we have a mere three machines. Actually
four but one of them spends most of its time in Windows 98 so I can never
get into it. :( One of these days I'll just kick the user off and put it
into Linux so I can make sure it's got all the current updates 
installed...

Probably the best thing IMHO about packages is that you can _un_install
the darn things fairly easily without worrying about keeping the whole
source tree so you can 'make uninstall', and (related) clean upgrades are
easier to do.

-- brion vibber (brion@pobox.com)


