> Not everyone has a top level computer, not everyone is an expert on rebuilding distributions from scratch you aren't but your distro maintainer should be >

> Not everyone has a top level computer, not everyone is an expert on rebuilding distributions from scratch you aren't but your distro maintainer should be > not everything is available as source code to build from, and most software not available as source code actually do ship their dependencies because it would be madness to suppose that there will never be any ABI or API break at any point in the future > not every OS is a GNU/Linux clone GNU/Linux is actually the exception here - the two big others just ship and replace the whole OS on every major update (and I've heard that this was the case for minor windows update too nowadays, not sure how much this is true)