It will waste a HUGE amount of time. Compiling basic software suite takes at least a single day, and it has a mental cost of managing the dependencies by hand. And you have to do that every time you update your software.
It's even worse than windows non-package management system. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Evgeny Budilovsky <bud...@gmail.com>wrote: > Why not compile all the latest software on some shared directory and then > run it from there ... > My company have policy not to give root access on development stations so I > just compile all my development software in home directory and use it from > there ... > > > 2010/4/27 Elazar Leibovich <elaz...@gmail.com> > >> Due to company's policy, our development desktop stations must have RHEL >> 4.7 installed on them. >> >> However, RHEL's packages are extermely out of date (for instance, it still >> have python 2.3, etc.), and we wish to use many up too date development >> tools (I'm not aiming to the bleeding edge, however a stable release from >> the last year seems to me a desirable goal). >> We mostly need user-space software (editors, scripting environment, etc.). >> What's the best method to >> >> 1. Use reasonably new user-space software on RHEL 4.7 >> 2. Not to break too much the entire RHEL echosystem, or at least >> provide to ourselves a clear way to upgrade the foreign packages we'll >> install. >> >> I'm not really familiar with managing Red-Hat distribution, so any advice >> will be welcomed. >> Thanks >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> >
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