On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Tim Cutts wrote:
The difficulty is that many ISVs tend to do a fairly terrible job of packaging their applications as RPM's or DEB's
I very much agree with this. While you mentioned init scripts that don't fit the distribution, I can add init scripts that are totally missing when they should be provided - a hand-made init script would not be part of the installed package and could fail in various ways if the package is updated or... uninstalled.
Like you, I tend to use tarballs if they are available, and if I want to turn them into packages I do it myself, and make sure they are policy compliant for the distro.
I think that's actually more important than the distribution per-se. If you are able to package something to fit the distribution (f.e. to install a missing kernel module, add an important software package, etc.) you can more efficiently use your time later on as packaging (done properly) is normally a one-time effort. This goes into the direction that the admin should use the distribution, not fight it!
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