USE THE SOURCE! Be a man!
How can you install other wonderful packages which need
special compilation directives?
RPM Clean??? Give me a break. (IMHO)
You want optimize? Use the source.
You want safety? Use the source.
You want to know which files to delete? Delete everything after that if you
wish, that's not an issue.
Don't knock it till you've tried it.
I've tried both ways on production servers.
>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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