Matt Kettler a écrit : > > > AFAIK, *VERY* few distro packages contain anything from tools. > > That said, I personally wonder why anyone would use a distro package for > something that updates are often time-sensitive. (ie: SpamAssassin, clamav, > etc). >
While I try to avoid pre-packaged binaries, I prefer pre-packaged sources. some reasons: - system specific options are already there (no need to tell the sw where to install its files). - to manage dependencies automatically (at least to avoid dll hell) ... > Last time clamav had a security fix it took Fedora several days to get a > updated > package out onto the yum mirrors. I'm glad my important boxes install from > source tarball. They were upgraded within 2 hours of the clamav-announce > message. > Though not very clean, one can "manually upgdate" (or should it be "upgrate"?) pre-packaged sources.
