Andy, I couldn't help but grimace at your post. No offense. With such a system, I can see a whole new crop of cracker attacks as a result of such ever-user-friendly, "plug-and-play"ish packages. IMHO, there is a point at which a system automates itself beyond a safe point -- trying to be more friendly to inexperienced (lazy? maybe) users. This is the whole reason we have ridiculous things like macro viruses. In contrast, I would encourage the download and compilation of the sources. Aside from what's in the compiler itself, this is total control. As slick as debs or rpms are, I can't help but feel as though they're sloppy and a "lazy" method for running (supposedly) trusted executables. Just my two cents... looking forward to a discussion. Timothy On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Andy Zbikowski wrote: > aren't much alike in reality. With Debain, you should be able to, in theory, > install every package [except for those that conflict, exim and sendmail > can't be installed at the same time for example] and everything you install > will work, and will work to the extent the package maintainer has configured > it to work out fo the box. Try that with Red Hat. =) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Houck thouck at thouck.com www.thouck.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org