On 13 Aug 2003 11:38:20 -0700, Xyerp <Xyerp@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Well yes, a good point and a bad point. I'd really rather know exactly
> what changes have just happened during my upgrade, rather than just
> being blinded by someone elses package manager. Who knows what I have
> done to my (taking an example) apache configuration? Maybe I'm a dirty
> hacker ;P heh. But yeah, sometimes I don't want to know all that, and
> just chuck the guff in any ol' where. Heh. Just as long as I have the
> choice...


I like knowing exactly what's going on, and to be able to optimize the
install for my setup.
As for applications that are so complex and huge that this is impractical?
I do my best to find several smaller and specialized ones that cover the
same territory.

Package managers are like the "locate" tool/db. All you need is to use "find"
in several simple scripts and you've freed up a lot of space and have a
lot more control.


Alan C.