On 1/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Perrin</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:jperrin@gmail.com">jperrin@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Top posting is bad on mailing lists mkay?<br><br>On 1/18/06, Dan Wright &lt;<a href="mailto:dwright134@gmail.com">dwright134@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt; wget <a href="ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz">
ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz</a><br><br>Building source on an rpm based distribution is bad mmmm'kay<br><br>It doesn't play nice with rpm/yum because there are no rpmdb entries<br>for software installed from source. It makes updates tricky, and can
<br>have unexpected consequences depending on what is linked to first,<br>path entries or overwritten files on update. It makes software audits<br>more complicated in production environments. Etc,etc, etc. It's just<br>not a nice thing to do to your server.
<br><br>&lt;/soapb<br><br>--<br>Jim Perrin<br>System Architect - UIT<br>Ft Gordon &amp; US Army Signal Center<br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CentOS@centos.org">
CentOS@centos.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos">http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos</a><br></blockquote></div><br>Is this better?&nbsp; I apologize for my blatant disregard for proper mailing list etiquette mmm'kay. I guess we could also argue that all the white space in your post is a waste of bandwidth, but I degress.
<br><br>Well anyways.....&nbsp; Thank you for bringing to my attention that a newer version of ruby exists for CentOS.&nbsp; I was not aware of that fact.<br><br>Dan<br><br>