On 09/03/07, Joshua Gimer <jgimer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am not going to fight about Admin Practices with everyone. If you take what you recieve from any list as gold you aparently cannot think for yourself anyway.
I think this has been gone over a couple of times. The problem is that the OP asked for help with a problem (actually, a number of related problem, all in separate posts) of his own doing without further justification. I'm sure you, and I, and plenty of others are capable of rolling our own bits outwith the core distro where necessary but the problem is how to advise people who don't? Best Practice for an RPM based system is to stick with the packages. You should only ever stray outside those boundaries if you're experienced and know what you're doing. If you DO stray and know what you're doing then you should be able to formulate a post to a mailing list which states: a) I have a system running BlarghOS 12.z b) I need functionality from BlipApp 6 not included with BlarghOS 12.z c) I'm compiling BlipApp 6 from these sources from http://blip.org/blip-6.0.0.tgz with support for additional libraries X, X and Z. etc. etc. d) And the resultant error is [error message here] When someone relatively inexperienced, or who provides scant detail, as the OP did, posts such vague questions it make sense to point them toward the Way Things Are Done, if they provide no information as to why they're veering from that path. The core problem is that people who've read and understood ESR's "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" generally ask different questions which don't prompt tail chasing. Will. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
