On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 at 23:06, Edwin Linux Fan wrote:
>DO NOT USE RPM.
>Use the SOURCE, Luke. Let go Luke. Luke, trust me.
>Go get yourself the source codes for:
>apache, mysql, php
>Follow instructions.
>You will learn.
>You will get the best results.
>You will thank me later.
And then later on, how do you remember which files are whose, when there
are so many of these great thingies lying around? How do you cleanly
remove them? Uninstall them? Upgrade them?
When I'm particularly "source hungry" because I want to do some
optimization, I normally get either the SRPM, or now, the dpkg sources
(three files). This way I get the best of both worlds. I get to compile
the stuff myself, with my own configure flags and CFLAGS. Plus, I get
whatever package manager to remember where the files are for me. And it
handles the issue of software stepping on each others' files. Or at least
I think so. ;>
--> Jijo
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