On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 04:58:11PM -0600, Jonathan Steffan wrote: > They don't provide srpms. Even their rpms need to be installed with > their install script. The rpms themselves assume very strange things > that would never be accepted into fedora in their current state.. and > this is just from watching the massive errors when installing without > their installer script (and with selinux enforcing.. now that was a > mess.. had to rebuild the server). I started to audit a policy for > Zimbra and it made me green in the face. [...] > I really wish they would release an "addon" package set that could be > integrated with existing distro maintained packages, but I highly doubt > this will ever happen. This being after I've studied their install > system and have had Zimbra in testing for a while. > > Please don't get me wrong... +1 to Zimbra for putting together a cool > system, but don't expect to have a multipurpose machine after letting > zimbra have it's way with your bits. A derivative distro would be more > useful then what they have now :-/ This all is even worse than what I already from what I read and tried (but I didn't go as far as you did). I'm afraid is not in their interest if distros are capable of including Zimbra. They use Open Source mainly as a marketing tool, for the rest the Open Source world can't do a lot with it :-(. B.t.w., Red Hat eXchange (commercial and expensive add-ons for RHEL) includes Zimbra. Wondering if installing those RPMs (I assume they provide RPMs) screw up your RHEL system too. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
