Hellooooo Aaaaah. Good ol debian. I used to be very fond of it's packaging system. I always considered it as one of the best. Love how it pulls the stuff from the grid, installs and configures it.
But, when we used a debian system in production the packaging system was somewhat in the way. So we still pulled the sources, compiled and installed them off /usr/local. Anyone had a look at gentoo's portage? It's very similar to FreeBSD where it pulls the sources and compiles it, including any tweaks you specify in a global /etc/make.conf. We found this much more useful in production use. flame away :) This message posted from opensolaris.org
