etc alternatives craziness

[Ray Leventhal]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Ray Leventhal wrote:
> 
>>> I completely encourage you to give it a try at other distributions (If
>>> you have not done so). I have done it myself (Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu,
>>> Mandrake). At the end of the day
>>> you will realise that there are always annoyances to all of them. You
>>> have to decide what things you are ok with and what things you cannot
>>> tolerate.
>> @OP:  Ubuntu, like many others, is a (here's the important part, so read
>> carefully) package based system.
>>
>> I'll say it again just to be clear.  Its a package based system.
>>
>> When you run *any* packaged based system (Ubuntu, Debian, RH, CentOS,
>> etc...) you need to stay with packages for installations wherever
>> possible.  Why?  Because things tend to break when you don't, as you've
>> seen.
> 
> To be fair, he _did_ build a proper package ("I built
> the new aMSN, and run make deb, install with dpkg"), but it may be short of 
> some of the post-install scripts used in Ubuntu.

True true...duly noted.

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