ARRggggggg....

[James McDonald]

> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006, A. Khattri wrote:
>>On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
>>
>>> So... Should I just say fsck it and go BACK to the MySql and
>>> PHP and Apache that came with Slackware 10.2 ?
>>
>>A lot of people are sticking with Apache 1.x and PHP4 for now exactly
>>because of this.
>
> It's certainly why I have.  I hate sliding down the bleeding edge.

I used to think debian was recalcitrant because of being so far behind the
times. But after spending untold hours to get dovecot, php5.x, mysql4,
squirrelmail, apache 2.xx and drupal working.

If you install trailing edge stuff that just works then you can save a lot
of time. My concern is with security - do you still have to recompile the
trailing edge stuff to include the latest fixes.

In the setup mentioned above I ended up having to juggle alpha and beta
versions of software and then discover each caveat for installing each new
version.

I still haven't been able to figure out how to keep a package managed
system at the bleeding edge using self compiled programs without having to
spend hours on each products website discovering how the latest version
plays with x or y but now plays with y differently then the last version.

I suppose I will have to figure out checkinstall.

So I feel your pain...