Upgrading

[Alex Martelli]

"Mats Wichmann" <mats at laplaza.org> wrote in message
news:3b9ca579.64958765 at news.laplaza.org...
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> :Or take ONE little step, move to Mandrake and urpmi, and save
> :much damage (to your head and/or to the wall, depending on
> :relative hardness thereof...)?-)  <ducks rapidly away, hoping
> :to have sparked a nice flamewar among fans of various rpm-based
> :distros vs debianists vs slackwarists vs rebuild-everything-from-
> :sources-always purists vs ...>
>
> Well, Alex, I'm a Mandrake fan and my head still has dents (I built
> those walls myself, perhaps I should have hired an ordinary contractor
> to save my head...)
>
> These days I take /one/ flyer at installing from binary RPM, if that
> looks daunting, I go find the sources.

Makes sense to me, actually.  Except the "one flyer" might as
well include dependencies-RPM's... if they don't break half
the world (as often, of course, they would).

Besides, it IS generally more fun to have personally built from
sources anything you really DEPEND on, it seems to me.


Alex