On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Daniel Jarboe wrote:
>> What harm could possibly come of going to the Debian repositories? I could
>> understand not wanting to reference Red Hat repositories, for example, on
>> your Ubuntu system, but really?
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/faq#head-d368048c60b7e3a33e73258a68dd824d7bc6a838
>
> More specifically, Ubuntu systems use a more current glibc and
> packages are compiled with a more current version of gcc. Those are
> the biggees. There are other differences, and as binary compatibility
> with Debian is not a goal of Ubuntu, I imagine the number of
> differences are growing rather than shrinking.
So source-based packages should be fine then? Or is the directory layout
different?
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