Hi:

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:17:25PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> centos/RHEL, PHP 5.3-related packages are extremely easy to come by.
> it may be that you have to look for the generally-approved repos (in
> this case, http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/5/, among others),
> but they're easily findable.
> 
>   i stand by my position that having to download, configure and build
> from source should still be listed as a last resort for most sane,
> mainstream linux distros.

For security reasons, it seems to me that building from source is far 
preferable to obtaining binaries from "unofficial" repositories.

--Dan

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