Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>
>> and building locally allows you to stay
>> versions ahead or behind the distro-packaged one according to your needs
>
> This is true, and there are times you need to do this. For those instances,
> build your own package. Your fellow administrators, and your successors,
> will thank you. :) (As a consultant I've had to clean up entirely too many
> machines which had lots of software installed from source; and quite often
> the policy is to re-install the whole OS because that was the best way to
> put the machine back to a known state).
But, the extra steps in building your own package are just more places
where things can go wrong - and places that you will second-guess the
author's choices about install locations, etc. You are right that if
they are done correctly it is a good thing and some/most of the work may
apply to the next release, but there is not much reason to think that if
don't get a source install right without packaging that you would build
a usable package.
--
Les Mikesell
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