On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jules Bean wrote:
>--On Thu, Jun 4, 1998 9:52 am -0400 Frag-A-Muffin
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I don't know how true this statement is (the mix and match statement) cuz
>> my system consists of tar.gz's and RPMs of libs and all my E stuff
>> compiled and works fine.
>
>
>How true?
>
>It's complete rubbish.
>
>I couldn't be bothered to reply at the time, but I saw and realised that..
>
>You can certainly mix and match RPMs and self-installed stuff.
>
>There are, of course, some caveats. But the caveats mainly apply in you
>have RPMed and local versions *of the same library*. In this case, you
>should decide which one you want, and remove the other - unless they're
>different major version numbers, and you know what you're doing.
>
>In general, use RPM (or dpkg, if you're on debian like me) whenever you can.
This may not always be best either. When attempting to install ssh via
RPM, I had lots of problems, so when I tried installing manually (via a
tar.gz), I was using ssh almost instantly.
However, I must admit that I always go for the RPM first, as it is a lot
easier and usually works.
Joe
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