On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> 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. ;>
another important function of package managers is for checking which files were
changed from the original state which they were installed. very handy for
trouble-shooting compromised systems.
-eric
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