APT package management was: [plug] Dropped Mandrake RPMs for Gentoo (should be Debian) package management

[Timothy White]

Michael Hunt wrote:

> --snip--
>
>That being said ....
>
>The real problem comes when your distro's release cycle is longer then
>the time taken by the Australian Federal government to call another
>election, you start mixing testing with stable, or worse yet run your
>production laptop on a mix of unstable and experimental (but even that
>is to slow so you compile your DE from source using the developers
>customised packaging scripts).[0] Add to this mix the fact that you are
>running stuff so old on your server you can't get support for a major
>problem [1] in the software and your laptop install is highly customised
>because it is running on non-standard hardware.[2] This leads you to
>consider and install software from backports or third part repositories
>eventually resulting in broken packages and apt hell.
>
>Then one day you hear of a small company, bankrolled by a wealthy South
>African producing a distro that has a 6 month release cycle, a version
>targeted for your laptop's hardware and employs your DE's lead
>developer!!![3] [4] This could almost be distro Utopia !!![5]
>
>For what it is worth, God [6] bless Canonical.[7]
>
>OK I'm ready for all the 'compile from source' distro enthusiasts to
>come out of the woodwork now.
>
>
Well I seem to be doing fine running a mix of testing/unstable and a few
other sources. I mainly keep the other sources deactivated until they
have something that I need.

As for compile from src. Well I tried that but upon discovery that the
latest ebuild (supplied by Gentoo /OR/ the author of the package) was a
major version behind the Debian version.
Besides, if you really need to compile from source, Debian (and other
apt-get's) have apt-build (IIRC)

Although IMHO the stable branch, while being just that can be a little
in the past.

Tim

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