On Tuesday 24 April 2007 16:24, Stephen Bosch wrote: > Well, I can't speak for anybody else, but I haven't had a problem with > reproducing a source install. How about time?
2 minutes download+install, vs 10-20 minutes compilation. Then, how do you uninstall? How do you know which version do you have? > Can you tell I'm a Gentoo user? :P > > I've got nothing against packages in principle, and my system has plenty > of packages from the distribution, but I've yet to see a project as > dynamic as Asterisk. What package maintainer could possibly keep up? And even gentoo uses packages. Sorry, but "make install" is something for developers - not users. The good thing about package managers, is that they tell you which package has been modified (a user changes a file, someone breaks into your machine and modifies a binary). In rpm it's done via "rpm -qVa" and in debian it's done by the command "debsums". I am not sure about gentoo. On a developers users - I would say install from source. On a *users* list : install always from your distribution packages. When was the last time you installed X from sources? KDE? Mozilla? OpenOffice? Why is asterisk different? _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
