From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Bit Twister wrote:   
   > You are absolutely correct on the vendor side. My point was about slow   
   > distribution turnaround for security patches.   
      
   Thanks VERY much, Jim, TJ, Dave, Bit Twister, Moe, and anyone else I may   
   have forgotten to name.  I hadn't realized that distro packages vs.   
   vendor packages was controversial.  (Okay, it's not a big controversy,   
   but there are arguments in favor of both sides.)   
      
   The only apps where I've used the vendor package over the distro package   
   were exactly the ones mentioned, Firefox/Thunderbird/Seamonkey and   
   VirtualBox, mainly because those are the ones where Bit's been posting   
   update notices.  Security (also stability) is much more important to me   
   than whatever new features they're adding, but I can see that even   
   there, there's disagreement over which package is more likely to have   
   recent security updates.  I hadn't even realized it was distro-dependent   
   (or rather distro-maintainer-dependent).  Definitely something to   
   consider when choosing a distro.   
      
   After some consideration, I've decided to go with the majority opinion,   
   and on my "production" system I'll be reverting to the distro packages   
   for those applications if possible, at least for the web apps.  I'm   
   still deciding about VirtualBox.  (I also haven't decided what to do for   
   each distro on my "test" system.)  Thanks very much, all of you, for   
   your help and advice on something that wasn't as simple and clear-cut as   
   I thought it was.   
      
   Adam   
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