Re: `holding back' packages?
> > Bottom line for me is, it's my box, I need to override Debian
> > occasionally. There used to be (still is?) this thing called `equiv'
> > for registering locally installed things with dpkg, but it's more of a
> > hassle than I'm willing to put up with for every tarball I
> > build. Every once in a while, I set my mind on gradually moving
> > completely to src and abandoning Debian.. but hey, I like Debian.
>
> I don't see why you use potato at all, then. If you're determined to
> wreck a "stable" install anyway, why don't you use unstable? At least
> you would have had X 4 debs pretty quickly.
Yeah, but unstable is unstable ;) With potato + custom stuff I have a
compromise that suits me pretty well. And even unstable doesn't
provide every piece of software on the planet.
> Sometimes I have that, too. But then I fire up dselect and browse the
> list of stuff I have installed, and I realize that I would have to quit
> my job if I wanted to manage that by hand.
Yeah, massiv props to the GNU/Debian folks for building the most civilized
operating system I've seen so far [there's a lot I haven't seen].
My main problem with pure src is, there's like a million files on a
typical box, and no guaranteed way to tell which one does what. With a package
system (Debian, RPM, ...) I can easily ask questions like "what
package owns this file" and "what files does this package own".
-chris
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