Has Linux gone binary?

[Dave Hull]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andrew Bates wrote:

> I assume you all notice a trend that has begun...

Package management has been around for quite a number of years now. I 
don't think this trend began recently.

For years, I downloaded source and compiled and installed things by hand. 
I still do on occassion when packages aren't available, but for the most 
part I try and avoid this whenever possible as it's much easier to use a 
package manager to upgrade and remove applications. 

IMO.

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