On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:27:37PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > In general, installing pre-compiled binaries of amanda is frowned upon for > exactly this reason -- many settings are specified at compile time. Your > only option (AFAIK) is to compile amanda with the portrange settings.
I do know how to recompile my own packages, I really do. I've done it for years. But right now there are great package managers which can save me a great deal of time spending on useless things like recompiling packages, keeping track of dependencies, upgrading etc. Right now I simply don't have the time to do all this manually, so I use packages. I have other things to do on these systems, usefull stuff. And if those packages are able to set all their settings in some configuration file I wouldn't have to worry about compiletime settings. So please explain to me, what is so great about setting this all at compile time instead of in a configuration file so that it can be determined at runtime? -- #!perl # Life ain't fair, but root passwords help. # Eric Veldhuyzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] $!=$;=$_+(++$_);($:,$~,$/,$^,$*,$@)=$!=~ # Perl Monger /.(.)...(.)(.)....(.)..(.)..(.)/;`$^$~$/$: $^$*$@$~ $_>&$;`
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