At 02:03 PM 9/20/02 -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >So it's the general census of the exp readers of this list that when one >can one should install from rpm rather then source code. Correct?
Dunno about "consensus" -- we don't take a lot of votes here -- but my personal view is that you should use your distro's packaging system (this is NOT the same thing as "from rpm", since there are other packaging systems) as much as possible. The important exceptions are: 1. Custom kernels. (This is a common enough excpetion that kernel source packages are the one set of source packages always, in my experience at least, included with the system binaries, not relegated to the source archives.) 2. A few packages have licenses weird enough that they can be distributed only as source. Not all distros pay attention to these restrictions, but some do. 3. You may have some special requirement that causes you to need a newer version of a program than the one your distro provides. This may mean getting a newer binary, a newer source package, or even the CVS version directly from the creator or maintainer. 4. Your distro may not include the package. 5. You have some particular reason for wanting to learn in detail how the program works. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
