On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 13:20 +0000, Lester Caine wrote:
Since most people using Linux will probably have all the packages handled by
their distribution,
True, albeit mostly outdated, as far as I know, only Slackware and Gentoo keep mostly up to date, as neither butcher httpd.
It's also a problem that not all httpd requirements are the same, some want ldap, some want mysql, some want foobar, too many variations to builds, which is why it's just as easy to download and build the source yourself, plus you have the benefit of knowing its current and not butchered by a distro which may have opened up a gaping hole by their flavor-patch, or thinking they know better than the devs (remember the problems debian caused by inserting a horribly broken patch to ssl on their distro a few years back, that not only affected debian and its variants, but also affect ANY OS's web server using an SSL Certificate that was generated on one of those screwed debian servers)... you just never know.
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