On 1/18/06, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: > > Top posting is bad on mailing lists mkay? > > On 1/18/06, Dan Wright <dwright134 at gmail.com> wrote: > > wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.4.tar.gz > > Building source on an rpm based distribution is bad mmmm'kay > > It doesn't play nice with rpm/yum because there are no rpmdb entries > for software installed from source. It makes updates tricky, and can > have unexpected consequences depending on what is linked to first, > path entries or overwritten files on update. It makes software audits > more complicated in production environments. Etc,etc, etc. It's just > not a nice thing to do to your server. > > </soapb > > -- > Jim Perrin > System Architect - UIT > Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Is this better? 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. Well anyways..... Thank you for bringing to my attention that a newer version of ruby exists for CentOS. I was not aware of that fact. Dan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060119/feb1b32f/attachment-0004.html>