On May 14, 2009, at 02:03, Victor Duchovni wrote:
Is there a real use case for binary RPMs not maintained by the distribution release engineering teams? What's wrong with the Postfix source, which is typically less likely to have ill-advised patches dropped into it?
A bit off topic already but some organisations find it easier to pack everything up in rpms, debs or pkgs and then deploy than compiling using two of the most common deployment methods: compile and install blindly or alternatively compile, tar it and then deploy. :) Especially on RedHat platforms deploying everything in rpm format is very convenient, makes for good bookkeeping and preserves any dependencies on other applications even across upgrades as long as you do it correctly.
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