UNC Linux Users Group

[Tom Roche <Tom_Roche AT unc.edu>]

... that would interest me, at least:

1 package system/managers compared--at least APT and RPM. I run debian
  on my own boxes, but the systems to which I remote are all CentOS,
  RHL, or SL, so I'd like to be more bilingual.

2 package-management partitioning. I am generally a big fan of
  distro-scale package management, but have come to believe (as is so
  often the case, there being no absolute good except absolute good)
  they can be suboptimal when dealing with spaces that have their own
  PMs, e.g., Python (and to a lesser extent R). Am I missing something?
  If not,

* are there other problematic subspaces?

* how best to isolate those subspaces from the OS/distro and each other?
  E.g. (IIUC) virtualenv for python.

FWIW, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche AT pobox.com>