[TriLUG] Deb vs. RPM (was Icecast.conf and debian)

[Tanner Lovelace]

Daniel T. Chen wrote:

> 
> True, but sometimes admins like to install things separately to avoid a
> bit of pollution, like Debian's philosophy of /usr/local. Granted, I
> apt-get -b source foo the majority of the time anyhow unless it's
> something ridiculously large like Mozilla...


Okay, that's a valid philosophy, but given a properly constructed
relocatable RPM, the admin can specify that a package should
be installed in /usr/local if they want to.  My points about
the utility of package management systems saving all kinds
of useful information still stands, though.

> "Comment? Bah!" <-- my response as a lazy student :>


You should know better than to make comments like that
to your former teacher, eh? ;-)

> "Why doesn't Andrea comment all this new vm mess in 2.4.10+?" <-- my
> response in sifting through source. Point taken. :)


:-)

Tanner
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