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I think original poster did a great job transcribing, but missed the point somewhat. While it is true that package managers make the installation process more robust <i>for average users</i> (they sometimes also [http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/debian-linux/ubuntu-linux-rollback-an-apt-get-upgrade/ screw things royally]), Randall probably wanted to make the point that projects which have reached package state are the most mature, tested and debugged. Using public git repository also speaks well about coding practices and hence product quality. On the other hand, code which requires manual tweaking to be installed likely has only been seriously used by its author (if at all) and is very likely to contain fatal bugs. | I think original poster did a great job transcribing, but missed the point somewhat. While it is true that package managers make the installation process more robust <i>for average users</i> (they sometimes also [http://www.cyberciti.biz/howto/debian-linux/ubuntu-linux-rollback-an-apt-get-upgrade/ screw things royally]), Randall probably wanted to make the point that projects which have reached package state are the most mature, tested and debugged. Using public git repository also speaks well about coding practices and hence product quality. On the other hand, code which requires manual tweaking to be installed likely has only been seriously used by its author (if at all) and is very likely to contain fatal bugs. | ||
[[Special:Contributions/172.68.11.85|172.68.11.85]] 08:06, 5 October 2016 (UTC) qm2k | [[Special:Contributions/172.68.11.85|172.68.11.85]] 08:06, 5 October 2016 (UTC) qm2k | ||
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Also, I believe this misses the joke about Geocities. I don't believe he is referring to code that was downloaded from Geocities at some distant past date, but code for which you are today given a link on Geocities to get it. The joke here is that, despite the fact that the chance of installing that code is zero, this is still better than code needing to be tweaked. [[User:JamesCurran|JamesCurran]] ([[User talk:JamesCurran|talk]]) 15:06, 5 October 2016 (UTC) | Also, I believe this misses the joke about Geocities. I don't believe he is referring to code that was downloaded from Geocities at some distant past date, but code for which you are today given a link on Geocities to get it. The joke here is that, despite the fact that the chance of installing that code is zero, this is still better than code needing to be tweaked. [[User:JamesCurran|JamesCurran]] ([[User talk:JamesCurran|talk]]) 15:06, 5 October 2016 (UTC) | ||
