Am 28.12.2011 23:32, schrieb Michael Lampe: > Reindl Harald wrote: > >> you need not to build a distribution to build clean packages >> in a clean build-envirnonment - this is simply in your own >> interest over the long and any quick& dirty solution >> will eat your time later > > Please tell me in detail what ends up quick and dirty, when doing what > is well established Unix practise since decades. This is nothing else > than a simplified (but very convenient!) form of crosscompiling. do what you believe and let us look where you end in 5-6 years after doing a couple of updates with "./configure && make && make install) it IS DIRTY because it does NOT remove obsoleted files and yes i have seen environemnets where as example mysql did not compile any longer as long all pieces of the old version were not deleted manually working on a modern OS beside the apckage-managment is just silly you have no clear dependencies, you have no migration-path, you have no clean rollback - you are doing a dirty job working so but yes, you can, do if you think it is good enough for you for the majority of advanced users it is not and in a prodessional environment it is simply unacceptable -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 262 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20111228/6819f3de/attachment-0005.sig>