[nylug-talk] Benefits/drawbacks of building Linux as a package [was: Looking for recommendations on Linux Distro]

[Ruben Safir]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 08:48:34PM -0400, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Ruben Safir wrote:
> 
> > Package managers by and large, actually all of them, suck in the first place
> > Your checklist is wishful thinking.  And I'm not talking out of my hat.  I'm
> > talking from a SUSE 5.3 distro running on a P2 right now which has been continually patched
> > by hand for a LOT of years now.
> 
> If by suck, you mean works extremely well and makes millions of people 
> happy, then yeah, most of them suck.  Our package managers suck.  I wish 
> everything sucked as much as my package manager does.
> 
> > The single biggest mistake someone can make aside from a dread aweful
> > rm command in jest is to install the Kernel from anything but an authenticed
> > source from kernel.org.
> 
> This advice runs counter to that of kernel maintainers, especially one 
> fellow named Linus Torvalds, who said quite some years ago that the 
> kernel.org kernel would henceforth not be a finished and ready to use 
> kernel, IHHO.  The quote was something along the lines of "that's the 
> job of the packagers"
> 


Also - for what it is worth