30 Jan
2010
30 Jan
'10
9:41 p.m.
* on the Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 01:36:52PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
AFAICT from that list, you'd be fine on openSUSE too. Still, nothing wrong with untar+config+make :-)
Yes, very wrong. Maintainability goes trough the floor. Or are you sure not to miss a security-relevant update in an insignificant program like tar? Or any other program or library which might be a dependancy of the software you're compiling?
And if you're compiling yourself, because the package in the distribution is too outdated, make packages, and name them after the same scheme as the distribution. That way your package might be upgraded automatically if the distribution ships a newer one.
Cheers Seegras
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