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[Gábor Lénárt]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:03:48PM +1000, Noel Butler wrote:
> The problem however is many people very dangerously and wrongly consider
> that their beloved favourite distro package, is in fact the current
> stable and the only one that exists. I'm horrified by the number of
> people responsible for servers that wont use anything but an rpm or a
> deb, they simply refuse to use the source, even though its current and
> stable, far more so than that rpm/deb file at like 3 years out of date,
> and they have the nerve to get narky at you for not helping them *sigh* 

Well I can agree otherwise, but I can understand them too: they use (or even
bought with support) a distribution to have a solution, otherwise they would
be able to use own distro, compiling everything from source (hmm, gentoo?).
The problem, that if they use many softwares and all of their makers say
"use a newer one" soon they would find themselves with compiling
_everything_ (the kernel itself too, soon, if it's based on an OS with open
source kernel at least) from source, and maybe they don't want this,
especially not with dozens of servers with their own managing tools, and so
on. But otherwise fully agreed, I'm using most server softwares compiled
from sources :) Just I tried to understand the other opinion too. Hopefully
it was not highly off-topic here to tell this. [but it's also true that if
they want the distributor's packages, they should ask for help from them
maybe, because developers are focusing on the up-to-date versions and also
next development ones, but not very old ones even patched by distributors
with custom and/or backported patches ...]