Obviously software is always better installed from source. This creates binaries that are system specific. However this represents the problem of software removal. I notice some software by default will install into /usr/local then dump everything under one directory (windows style-the source install for samba is a good example). You can uses switches to put these files in the correct bin lib etc folders. So if you follow the standard(usings the systems bin/etc/sbin/man/var folders) how can you effectively remove a piece of software without having a list of all the files and paths of every app you installed. This is the only drawback to Linux I have found. Of course RPMs/dpms are away around this but lets omit pre-packaged software.
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