Reinstalling as an opportunity

[Derek Atkins]

I would argue that FC's package management is just as good as the
other distributions you mention.  Perhaps the package library isn't
quite as good, but I trust the release engineering of RedHat/Fedora
much better than Debian or Ubuntu.  For example, GnuCash 2 was only
just pulled into Debian/testing <TODAY>..  In order to use the packages
before today, you had to run Debina/unstable.  I think that's just as
rife with issues as anything else.

The fact that Red Hat doesn't go and upgrade packages in older distributions
is considered a FEATURE, not a bug.

But honestly this is significantly off-topic.  I'll just point out that
someone who goes out of bounds of their distribution's package management
system is bound to screw themselves.  It doesn't matter which OS they
use.  Someone on Debian who goes and tries to upgrade a core package
by compiling it by hand is just as likely to destabilize their system
as someone who does it on Gentoo or Fedora.

But again, this is completely off-topic for this mailing list.  I suggest
replies go to /dev/null.

-derek

Quoting Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>:

> I would strongly suggest to Mr. Mraz, who has just been told by Derek that
> he's destroyed his system and needs to reinstall, that take this as an
> opportunity to use a Linux distribution with top-notch package management,
> such as Debian, Ubuntu, or Gentoo. Some may disagree, but I don't think
> Redhat and Fedora Core <whatever> are in that category (remember -- good
> package management not only involves good package management software, but a
> rich respository that isn't rife with dependency bugs). I have the latest
> release of Gnucash running, built from source on my Gentoo system. It was
> completely painless and hands-off. I told 'emerge' to do it, and it did it.
>
> I continue to be amazed by the amount of pain people inflict on themselves
> (and the amount of bandwidth we devote to it on this mailing list) as a
> result of poor choice of Linux distributions.
>
> /Don
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