On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Chuck chuck.carson@gmail.com wrote:
Once I build a system and bring it to our defined baseline, I rarely use rpm from that point forward...I custom roll almost everything -- especially apache. (red hat's layout makes my skin crawl) When did CPAN become so bad? It was the defacto standard and source of truth for perl modules 10 years ago. I trust CPAN over any rpm provided by red hat. Maybe things have changed, it has been several years since I got down and dirty with perl modules...
If your distrust of Red Hat is so high, one has to wonder why you're using CentOS at all.
No insult or deprecation intended, it's just that there are many Linux options around, enough of them free.
Personally, I like the stability and reliability of CentOS (RHEL) enough to put up with any inconveniences I have found so far. Besides, the support on this list is sublime.
mhr