It's been my experience that it's best *not* to rely on the distro for any mission critical piece of software. Either download the binary from a trusted source or build it yourself. If you rely on RedHat, Novell, OpenSuSE, Unbuntu, etc. you can wait for some things until you are old and gray. Worse is to have some update that you haven't screened stomp on something you need.
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Mark Eggers <its_toas...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ... > Sounds like this is a topic that could be brought up on the Fedora > development IRC (or mailing list). I imagine the immediate response would > be, "If you're interested, why don't you build and maintain the package". > > I can't see any technical reason for RedHat not to provide a package. The > RPMs required for building it already exist in the distribution, the actual > software build is trivial, and they already provide RPMs for things like > mod_perl, mod_python, and svn. > ... -- "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v, 121-24)
