Re: Unsupported packages on RHEL

Jos Vos <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general
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On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:12:01PM -0400, Lars Bjaerris wrote:

> Apart from the obvious dependency issues with installing a non RH
> supported package,
> What in your collected opinion would be the cons. of doing this ?

Depends on where you get your packages from.

Often, packaging is done *very* poorly, a reason why I never installed
a contrib package (or now a Fedora extras package) without looking at
the spec file and sometimes redoing the whole packaging.

In short: you have to do your own QA or you have a good chance of
making a mess out of your system pretty fast...

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