Package management vs. ./configure

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Author: plug@arcticmail.complugarcticmail.com
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Subject: Package management vs. ./configure
That's almost exactly the boat I was in.

Custom Apache+mod_ssl+PHP3+LDAP+IMAP+PostgreSQL+...+...


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* On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 01:20:58PM -0700, Rod Roark wrote:
> I agree, package managers are certainly not for the clueless. The
> problem comes when the available package is broken or obsolete.
>
> What inpsires me to post this message is a very recent experience with
> the mod_php3 and mod_php3-ldap RPMs that come with Mandrake. I had to
> uninstall both of these and install PHP3 from source because the
> Mandrake RPMs just didn't work when trying to use LDAP.
>
> Now of course any RPM I later install that requires PHP will complain
> because its RPM is not installed, and so I'll have to do something
> special about that.
>
> Note that I'm not gratuitously living on the bleeding edge. I just
> wanted LDAP to work.
>
> The moral? There needs to be a better way.
>
> -- Rod
>    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

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