On 28/01/05 17:09 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:46:52 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Binand Sethumadhavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I thought we were talking of RH, not FC. RH in my mind is RHEL. If by > > > pinning you mean locking a machine, it certainly is possible. I don't > > > understand what "going to unstable" means - if it means you want to > > > deliberately make your machine unstable, I'm glad that this feature is > > > not present in RH. :) > > > > Kind of a feature where you can maintain a system that's a mix of debian > > stable, testing and unstable - and lock particular packages to the version > > from > > a particular debian release. If you wanted a system that is basically FC1 > > but > > has a mix of FC2 and FC3 package versions .. > > > > > > do all this with FC, but, I still believe that somewhere down the > > > > line, that ./configure;make;make install is bound to fail for > > > > something... > > > > That's why I get so many debian users coming around various mailing lists > > hunting frantically for a debian package of a new version, to replace the > > old, > > obsolete version their debian ships with. When someone suggests that they > > just > > download the source and compile it, it is like we've gone and told them to > > commit sacrilege or something. > > > > You always have apt-src then. > As for suggesting source packages, think the same with RHEL ..
But doesn't apt-src need a Debian source package in the first place? RHEL is quite a bit newer than Debian stable. How maintainable is Debian if the Debian packages do not suit your needs, and you build and install from source)? RedHat is quite maintainable that way. Of course, RedHat's habit of linking LDAP into everything does irritate me, but I can get rid of most of the crap that it ships with. For those of you who haven't used ports (or Gentoo, or Rock), do so. Some of us use Linux because of the customisation we can do to the packages we use. Debian just isn't customisable /and/ maintainable. Devdas Bhagat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
