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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:52:55AM -0700, mbutcher spoke thusly:
>
	snippage...
> 
> To me, the attractive part about the way it works now is that it is simple 
> and straightforward. I feel like I am in control of things when I update a 
> package. It took me (and probably most people on this list) a minimal amount 
> of time to learn the scheme, and now I rue the days when I used to spend 
> hours debugging problems in Red Hat init scripts (only to have my fixes 
> overwritten the next time I upgraded with RPM).
>
	more snippage...

This is one of the main reasons I went with LFS and now Gentoo instead
of the other distros.