Re: Unsupported packages on RHEL
"Stephen John Smoogen" <[email protected]>
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On 4/24/06, Jos Vos <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > Of course some of the ones you have to do that with are the ones kicked out of core :) > 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... > > -- > -- Jos Vos <[email protected]> > -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 > -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 > > -- > Taroon-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator -- Taroon-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list