Re: What Linux edition we should chose?

2010/5/31 Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>:
> On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 21:14 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
>> if you install some libraries like python clients or some
>> software depending on PgSql from the repositories in RPM/DPKG based
>> OS, you will have a tough time with the dependency stuff.
>
> Really?
>

My experience (mostly with FreeBSD, but it scales to other systems as
well) is that if you have some stuff managed by your package manager
and some from hand-built sources, that ultimately you end up in a
world of hurt. It has to be all or none one way or the other, or your
package manager will try to install things you already have, possibly
breaking how you set things up, or you end up with missing bits and
pieces.

We choose to make packages locally to satisfy all of our dependencies
as it also greatly simplifies management across 30+ servers.