Les Mikesell wrote: > On 9/17/2010 3:30 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> All I'm saying is that it often turns out to be a whole lot more work >>> than the initial 'configure, make, make install', so you either have to >>> train the users to do their own copies in their own space so it will <snip> > If you have different users needing these things on the same machine you > must at least have run into situations where someone needs one version > of a CPAN module or a new php/python/mysql version when at the same time > someone else is running something that won't work with it. > > You might have run into the CPAN issue if you installed something like > RT in the Centos 4 era. Actually, my manager just laid something on me this morning: the new release of Adobe's 64-bit flash for Linux. I suppose I need to get it from Adobe, then find who's running 64 bit and not 32 bit.... mark