[Bendug] apt-get , Ubuntu

[Tim Howe]

I threw Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedghog) onto a box the other day and I am likign
this system for the non-expert.  It automatically detected and allowed me to
download updates, it setup a nice little system with lots of useful apps.  My
only complaint is that some of the stuff I decided to install with apt-get was
very unpolished...  I installed Ruby which was, for some reason, several months
out of date.  Not sure why I did it with the package manager since it is
butt-simple to compile it.  I installed LyX, but it was either missing important
bits, or it installed misconfigured and couldn't find them.

This all led me to think that a lot of packages must make it into the apt-get
repositories without any peer review.  I'm used to using the OpenBSD ports tree,
which is very carefully audited.  I'm curious if  others have run into this with
Linux packaging systems.  Is the Gentoo ports tree carefully reviewed?  I have
never had a problem with Crux (what I call 'Ports Tree Jr.').

--TimH