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insomnia:
Their are good reasons to install it from source.
The RPM packages aren't provided with their source code. This can give problems for dynamic web hosting  
(mostly PHP).

insomnia:

quote:Originally posted by insomnia:
Their are good reasons to install it from source.
The RPM packages aren't provided with their source code. This can give problems for dynamic web hosting  
(mostly PHP).
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PS: This is one of the reasons why you shoudn't run a web server on closed source systems.

flap:

quote:Originally posted by insomnia:
The RPM packages aren't provided with their source code. This can give problems for dynamic web hosting  
(mostly PHP).
--- End quote ---


How so?

insomnia:

quote:Originally posted by flap:


How so?
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'If'(and their always is an if) something goes wrong you'll need them to rebuild things.
If you don't have any sources you'll have to do what you're told. Their's no way to fully understand every problem. RPMs are prebuild by others and not always like they should.
Many people seem to have problems to compile PHP on top of RPMs.

With closed source systems you have the same problems, but a lot worse.

Example: In Windows you sometimes have to place 'php.ini' in the same dir as 'php.exe' (= not safe).
Why...?
Nobody seems to know this.
You need the sources to find out...

[ April 12, 2004: Message edited by: insomnia ]

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