Re: [CentOS] Why is yum not liked by some?

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 22:46 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:

Actually, this leads me to a question I wanted to ask anyway. I've been advised here before that I should always try to install things through Yum or RPMs. I've been told that installing from tar files and building from source is a bad idea.

But what does one do when there is software that is readily available for other Linux distros, and is theoretically buildable for CentOS, but not available from the standard Yum repositories like Dag and CentOS's own? Is one supposed to contact the repository owner and request the software be included?

I use the checkinstall utility. Make your own rpms out of the tar source and then keep them updated and managed through yum or whatever.