Being Newer Than Red Hat

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I have always been a proponent of packages. For the most part, it makes 
software relatively straightforward to install. We had a package manager at 
DEC long before Linus went to college.With a package manager you can 
resolve issue such as:
Base OS ships with library X v 4.0.
Some compiler package ships with  library X v 4.4.
OS upgrade ships with library X v 4.2.
A good package manager will prevent the OS upgrade from overwriting the 
newer library.

What a package manager cannot do is to resolve problems like 
incompatiobilities between libraries. 

Once you go beyong the package manager and build from source, you are on 
your own. 
On 12 Aug 2002 at 15:33, Chris Tresco wrote:

> I've never thought of package management as a bottleneck.  Quite the
> contrary.  
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