[ale] Ubuntu for developers?

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

On Friday 20 October 2006 10:33, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
>
> Ubuntu is based on Debian, with some nice additions and (IMHO) better
> software.  However, no package management system out there lends itself
> to having "very explicit versions of various tools."  You may want to
> lighten the requirements to be "tool version x.y.z or better"... just an
> idea.  :-)

Easy to say, hard to do.  We've got 500 + systems that run with 4.0.16 mysql.   
Using newer versions is dangerous, because code that works on the developers 
box might not work in the field.