On Apr 10, 2005, at 18:52, Johnny Hughes wrote: > {not to Jens particular, but to everyone :)} > If you are going to compile a program from source (or roll your own > SRPMS/RPMS for it), remember that you will have to keep your own > software up2date ... and weigh the benefits of the new features against > your own skills to keep your software updated :) > > Having outdated software installed can lead to you being owned :) You're 100% right, but in a lot of cases there's simply no way around it. Some distributions ship complete garbage, for example the methusaleh OpenLDAP packages that were used in RH-based distributions up to RH9, which they had dragged by its hair all the way from the RH 7.x versions... jens