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After a hard day chasing antelope around the Serengeti
 Jason Stokes <jstok@bluedog.apana.org.au> said:

>Why "Linuxuser@windows98.com" is using tarballs long after they've been made
>obsolescenct by clean package management facilities is beyond me.  Even the
>developers of various packages aren't using tarballs much any more,
>preferring access to revisions over CVS.

Generally the packages of $THING appear quite a while after the tarball is
available. ftp.gnu.org still dishes out all its stuff as tarballs- if you
want to live on the bleeding edge then you have to use a tarball[1] sooner or
later. 

I personally use stow whenever something is going to splurge files all over
/usr/$FOO or whatever or wait for the .deb file that is appropriate.

Regards,

-david

[1] Especially with Debian- without using the insidious rpm format and alien
the wait for Debianized packages is fairly[2] long.
[2] Compared to RPM; of course I may just be looking in the wrong places.

-- 
David Nutter <d-nutter@usa.net>
"We used to build civilisations, now we build shopping malls."-Bill Bryson