[Nolug] email questions

Mark,

I am sorry but your last email to me was accidentally deleted.

You had asked why I was installing Courier-imap from source.

I like to install major applications and their primary dependencies from
source because I think it is better if we all operate from a single knowledge
base. It's OK to install the base system from a distribution such as Debian
(which is the one I like). Also It is easier to use options when configuring
the source.

I've had this discussion several times with people. I don't want to be
dependent on so much on a distribution. I don't want to learn a packaging
system flavor of the year. I don't want to install 5 different packages
(arbitrarily created e.g. dev, ssl/tls, utils, etc etc), when I only need one
package. I don't want to muck around with dependencies that aren't really
dependencies or install 10 packages when I only want one package.

I like source. Last night I compiled openldap from source and it went
beautifully. When it uninstalled the Debian openldap package to do this, it
uninstalled gnupg. Why? I'm sure there's a reason and I'm sure there's a way
to manage apt-get to do 95% like I want, but I'd rather install source.

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Craig Jackson
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