Re: [TCLUG:19794] Downside to Debian?

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@fuggle.veldy.net>]

Or one could just compile it from source and get exactly the PHP options
they are looking for - instead of what somebody else has chosen for them.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net


On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Kevin R. Bullock wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> 
> > 1)  "Debian is too far behind."  The stable distro isn't updated as often as
> > many people would like, but I've had extremely few problems with running
> > unstable (and those few were invariably fixed within a day), so this is a
> > non-issue for me.  And it's pretty easy to run a mix of versions if you want
> > to stick with stable, but need a few things that are only present in
> > unstable.
> 
> Actually I made a startling discovery the other day: there are *no* PHP4
> RPMs anywhere in RedHat's distro *or* libc6 contrib mirrors (that I could
> find). Yet even potato (debian's current frozen, soon-to-be-release
> distro) has a full complement of PHP packages.
> 
> Point: in a growing number of cases, it seems that Debian's growing
> developer base and centralized package structure (keeping all packages
> well organized into clear, obvious sections) is beginning to really pay
> off -- and yes, it seems Debian is pulling ahead of RedHat in keeping
> packages current (*hugs*unstable*). :)
> 
> > 2)  "Too many things aren't available as debs."  Yes, it's true - for
> > whatever reason, Red Hat is the 'default' Linux flavor, so RPMs are a lot
> > easier to find than debs.  That's why someone invented alien.
> 
> See above. And in addition to alien, there's stow (./configure
> --prefix=/usr/local/stow/pkgname; make install; stow -vvv
> /usr/local/stow/pkgname), and there's always debhelper for compiling
> software into Debian packages. :)
> 
> Don't take me too seriously here. I'm just shooting my mouth off again. :)
> 
> Pacem in Terris / Mir / Shanti / Salaam / Heiwa
> Kevin R. Bullock
> 
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