Scott Silva wrote:
("User" installations on FreeBSD gets you standard development libraires and the C compiler. I am beginning to understand that CentOS looks at this more like Windows - the "base load" is in fact just a runtime with NOTHING development-related in it....)
But it isn't always prudent to have a full development environment on a "server". The safe bet is to have a devel box as far as it can be from the internet, and servers only have what they need to function. If a server is compromised, no devel means it is at least slightly more difficult to compromise the system. The more on a server, the more "potential" security holes that might sneak in.
Better yet, find the yum repository where binaries are already built and maintained and set up the server so all it needs to do is 'yum update' to keep those holes fixed. And in the unlikely event that you need something no one else has built, set up your own yum repository between your development and production servers.