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Re: advisable to use installer script?

From Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: advisable to use installer script?
Date 2020-05-09 07:10 +0200
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On Vi, 08 mai 20, 11:31:13, Celejar wrote:
> 
> Indeed. It's just not clear to me that a typical package in Debian will
> have fewer bugs than the same software downloaded straight from
> upstream.

The main "selling" point for Debian is that the software is properly 
integrated with the rest of the system and easy to upgrade, even between 
releases.

Additionally most packages are built for all architectures, which helps 
uncover some interesting bugs that upstream wouldn't find otherwise.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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    Re: advisable to use installer script? Anil F Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> - 2020-04-06 18:50 +0200
      Re: advisable to use installer script? Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2020-04-06 21:00 +0200
        Re: advisable to use installer script? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-04-06 21:00 +0200
          Re: advisable to use installer script? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-05-08 17:40 +0200
            Re: advisable to use installer script? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-09 07:10 +0200
              Re: advisable to use installer script? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-05-10 04:10 +0200
        Re: advisable to use installer script? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-04-06 21:40 +0200
          Re: advisable to use installer script? Alex Mestiashvili <amestia@rsh2.donotuse.de> - 2020-04-06 22:50 +0200
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              Re: advisable to use installer script? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-05-08 17:40 +0200
            Re: advisable to use installer script? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-07 10:20 +0200
              Re: advisable to use installer script? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-04-07 10:40 +0200
        Re: advisable to use installer script? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-07 10:10 +0200

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