On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
That because you manage only one computer. Think about poor sysadmins who maintain dozens servers on a site - they just don't have enough time to untar and compile all that crap...
If they don't have time to maintain all of that why would they have time to download those RPMS all of the time. I think you are covering the precise reason for why I use debian on my workstations and servers. The latest zope is in unstable within about 3 days usually of a new release and a security fix within a day. That way you can upgrade it very easily across many machines. There is even a network shell that allows you to give one command to many machines at the same time. So if you want to install python imaging to lots of computers for a new product you can easily. I used to use redhat, mandrake, slackware etc for one machine for a few but the maintenance was just taking too long. Debian with apt-get or BSD with ports are a much better idea with many machines.