Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 25, 2005 11:56 PM
I'm perfectly ok with people compiling from source on their own machine; how you waste your time is, after all, your business. However, for the love of $deity, if you admin a server that other might have to work on, save them troubles and use your distribution's standard mechanism for installing software. I hate having to troubleshoot a server where half the stuff is spread over<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/local with no way to track which is running and which is just leftover from careless would-be admin. Add to that non FHS-compliant habits, non-standard init script (admins using rc.local to start service deserve to be shot), half-assed syslog and logrotate configuration, and you have a recipe for disaster.
I appreciate availability of the source just like the next guy, but experience tell me distributors do a better job than I at compiling and packaging software. If, like me, your time is too valuable to reinvent the wheel constantly, do yourself a favor and learn your distro's package manager (yum, apt, yast, urpm, portage, ports, whatever).
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 25, 2005 11:56 PMI appreciate availability of the source just like the next guy, but experience tell me distributors do a better job than I at compiling and packaging software. If, like me, your time is too valuable to reinvent the wheel constantly, do yourself a favor and learn your distro's package manager (yum, apt, yast, urpm, portage, ports, whatever).
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