Build From Source vs. Packages?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday March 30, 2004 @05:48AM from the what-do-you-do dept.

mod_critical asks: "I am a student at the University of Minnesota and I work with a professor performing research and managing more than ten Linux based servers. When it comes to installing services on these machines I am a die-hard build-from-source fanatic, while the professor I work with prefers to install and maintain everything from packages. I want to know what Slashdot readers tend to think is the best way to do things. How you feel about the ease and simplicity of installing and maintaining packaged programs versus the optimization and control that can be achieved by building from source? What are your experiences?"

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Re:From source, definitely. by pjt48108 · 2004-03-30 06:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Ann Arbor here, how do I get a swell job like yours, and get out of this mortgage bank temp-slave hell? ;-)

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Re:One word for you... by Progman3K · 2004-03-30 06:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

What do you mean?

The Gentoo Portage system was copied from FreeBSD?

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Re:One word for you... by jtev · 2004-03-30 06:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You act as if no US soldiers died under clinton, that's simply untrue. Clinton got us into rat fucks all over the world. At least wtih Bush the soldiers were honored and died for the interests of their country rather than solely the interests of their country's leader.

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