On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 22:10, nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:
Perhaps you should use a distribution that includes all of the packages you need rather than trying to bolt a bunch of 3rd party stuff on to CentOS.
Agreed.
I install a bunch of 3rd party packages myself, though they are all built from source, and all installed/tested via RPM, I never, ever directly use 3rd party repositories. Never have had a problem. I even download mysql from mysql.com and build it from source, even go so far as rebuilding php to link against the newer mysql(in CentOS 4's case). No problems.
How is this not "trying to bolt a bunch of 3rd party stuff on to CentOS"?
And I don't agree with you that using 3rd party repositories is not advisable. Many 3rd party repositories have very high quality standards and many useful packages. Not using them means a lot more work in packaging and updating that others will do for you if you use them. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
Filipe