Re: Thanks Apple! You snubbed perl yet again!

On Oct 18, 2007, at 4:43 PM, jeremiah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> On Oct 18, 2007, at 8:56 PM, Chris Nandor wrote:
>
>> Not sure what you mean by
>> losing things from upstream.
>
> Just that when I chose to compile software on my own, I lose all the  
> debian security work.
>
> They look over packages and re****t vulnerabilities, I can just  
> update with apt-get and get a new version - if I compile from source  
> then I have to follow security warnings for the software I installed  
> on my own. This is not a big deal if we are just talking about two  
> or three applications, but if you are sup****ting a platform or a  
> distribution, having the debian security do security for thousands  
> of packages becomes a service that money cannot buy.

Sorry, I'm confused -- why not just use Debian then?

You're basically saying you want their custom build & distribution  
service, but that is (naturally, one might think) only available on  
their Linux distribution.

Apple already maintains the core OS software, including bundled open  
source packages like Perl, but if that isn't enough for you, and  
Debian is, then what exactly are you asking for?