Re:Packagers don't know best
by asperous on Friday June 21, 2013 @05:53PM
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For applications its easier for sure. I've always liked how easy it is to installed statically linked applications. Still, bugs happen.
Development libraries, command line utilities, interpreters-- bread-n-butter developement or unixy stuff or in otherwords, the things the average user don't see-- is usually a a lot easier to get and keep up to date when you have a package manager.
Development libraries, command line utilities, interpreters-- bread-n-butter developement or unixy stuff or in otherwords, the things the average user don't see-- is usually a a lot easier to get and keep up to date when you have a package manager.