On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:21:16AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Tarballs end up working much better than > > binaries in the long run,
> If this were so, I wouldn't use Debian. > > although they can become a mess. It's far too time-consuming to maintain an entire system with tarballs - particularly if you use a packaging system of some kind (very important, especially if major system components like the compiler are involved or you have multiple admin levels). Doing a good job of it is difficult. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/