[ale] apt-get'ish?

[Keith Hopkins]

Stephen Turner wrote:
>  the best updates do come from the source website right?

   It depends on your distro.  I know if you are running SuSE, they tweak just about everything to fit their guidelines.  A lot of the time, this includes where a program will install to.  SAMBA is a big example: by default, the samba.org sources install to /usr/local/samba (I think), but the SuSE distro puts the utils in /bin or /sbin, the config in /etc and has logs over in /var, init scripts that are very SuSEish.  So, it is customized for the distro.  If you try to load a generic source package from the originator on top of SuSE (again, Samba & the Kernel being prime examples), you loose some functionality (admin tools and configs, etc) that the distro 
is customized for.

   Again, depending on your distro, it can be more benificial (easier to integrate) a package (source or binary) that the distro provides.

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith


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