On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 7/25/2011 11:37 AM, Patrick Lists wrote:
>>
>>>>> Installing non RPM software on an RPM Distro like CentOS is frowned
>>>>> upon. That is the worst way to do it.
> else has already done it. That is, building an RPM is always more work
> than doing a source install and often imposes inconvenient restraints
> like only permitting a single version to be running at once, and doesn't
> give you any guarantee that you won't have to repeat that extra work
> when the distribution changes. If you aren't planning to repeat that
> install on other machines, where's the payback for the extra work and
> constraints?
The rant at the start of this thread was about a migration
into C6, so of course, your predicate condition: 'you aren't
planning to repeat that install' does not apply
The disciplne and benefit of identifying and solving
dependencies in a packaged system, rather than splatting as
root over system libraries upon which other packages depend
[also, the same isue using CPAN shell to 'solve' a problem,
rather than packaging, as ZM has many such [1]] is obvious,
and needs no further advocacy, even for a single install; the
'straw man' about setting different private library paths
assumes that the person building such even comprehends that
there is an issue in play. Not likely
-- Russ herrold
[1] [herrold@centos-5 zoneminder]$ ls -1 | grep ^per | wc
37 37 1354
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