[vlc] Re: Survey

[elefino]

On Saturday 21 May 2005 23:17, Robert Yu wrote:
> What do you find preferable? Installing from sources or installing
> from binary packages?

If you are running a Linux distro like SuSE, then setup/config tools like 
YaST or apt are taking good care of your rpm database. Depending on what 
you install from source, you can break the rpm database (or at least, 
upset some dependencies that it thinks it's got covered), and suddenly 
find yourself needing to do everything -- even mundane security updates 
and fixes from source, rather than via the automated or semi-automated 
tools.

Some people enjoy, as a hobby, keeping track of every little detail in 
their systems, and "hand-crafting" every little tweak and update. 
Other people....... have lives.    :-)

Some people enjoy having (say) YaST perform an online update that 
sorts out what you've got, what updates are available, takes care of 
all dependency issues, and just does it either with three mouse clicks, 
or even just a nightly automated pass.

Other people enjoy performing the make, make install ... dance.... over and 
over and over and....   :-)

No bias here.     (ahem... coff,coff)


K.

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