Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:22:35PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: <snip> >> If you want shiny and new, why not do it properly and build >> rpms? > <long snip> > On the whole, this list is professional. I like that. But look, > "./configure, make, make install" is _always_ a proper option. Any serious > business will have need of building on occassional program with different > flags than the distro's default, whatever the distro. I often end up > building a few core applications that way, as do many other sysadmins in > serious business settings. If you don't need to, that's fine. Some > businesses can wear off-the-rack cloths. Others need tailored garments. you didn't get it Whit, John was not saying "stick to what's in the distro [or trusted 3rd party repos]". He was suggesting to build your own rpms when needed. This allows you to use whatever version, build flags, options etc, just like your configure-make-make install solution. But it has many advantages, including easier housekeeping and dep management, deploying to many systems, pushing new versions, etc....