Poll about package management

[Jirka Grunt]

[ ] I am an editor of LFS or one of the related projects
[X] I use LFS as my primary Linux system
[X] I use LFS on more than one PC (including virtual machines)
[X] I deviate a lot from LFS (not counting package updates as deviations)
[X] I deviate a lot from BLFS (not counting package updates as deviations)

I use the following package management technique:
( ) It's all in my head!
( ) I trust the lists of files in the book
( ) I rebuild everything every three months or less, so there is no need to manage anything!
( ) Installation script tracing with installwatch or checkinstall
( ) Installation script tracing with some other tool
( ) Timestamp-based "find" operation
(X) User-based
( ) RPM
( ) DPKG
( ) Simple binary tarballs produced with DESTDIR
( ) Other DESTDIR-based method of producing binary packages
( ) Other

I use the following features provided by a package manager:
[X] Knowing where each file comes from
[X] Clean uninstallation of a package
[X] Removal of obsolete files when upgrading to a new version
[ ] Ability to upgrade toolchain components (most notably, glibc) painlessly
[ ] Ability to revert mistakes easily and quickly by installing an old binary package
[X] Ability to compile once, deploy on many macines
[ ] Scripting the build

I will ignore the future LFS advice on package management if it
[ ] Can't be applied on a busy machine where many files are accessed/modified everyy minute
[ ] Can't be used to transfer packages to another machine
[ ] Interferes with config.site files described in DIY-linux
[ ] Will clobber configuration files wen upgrading package versions
[ ] Doesn't explain how to package software beyond BLFS
[ ] Requires learning another language/syntax besides bash shell syntax
[ ] Exists at all