On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 10:56 +0200, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: > The main drawback is that distributions often are somewhat delayed, one > does not get the very freshest software. On the other hand, the most > recent version of something often requires recent versions of other > software, and there you go again, hunting packages from all over, > having to compile yourself, spending time and getting problems. have you ever installed firefox? it doesn't work that way. the binary is statically linked. its not quite as easy as (yum|apt-get) install firefox, but its nothing like the process you are referring to.
