Why ?

[David Ginger <me ukGinger net>]

Please do'nt flame me for this....

I do'nt really know a whole lot about packaging, but I have some questions 
that I would appreciate some straight answers or url.

Why is it that I meet so many people who bitch about dependencies ?
This does'nt directly effect me, so I do'nt know what they are rambling on 
about . . . . 

The other thing that puzzles me is why srpm are not advocated and used more. 
Becuase the other thing I hear is the old "Its better to compile it 
yourself". Well yea, thats why I "use"  pun intended --target athlon, in my 
case.

The other thing I hear from my LUG is that , dare I mention it .deb is 
supposed to better. I find that hard to belive, becuase if there were any 
real break throughs would'nt the idea be folded into rpm ?