php and me don't get alone... help?

[Zbigniew Koziol]

On Thursday 30 November 2006 21:04, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:

> > I wanted to point out that using rpm's etc is seldom the best way
> > of installing and configuring these beasts. Why? PHP offers a lot
> > of optional libraries. I am personally used to play with many, just
> > for fun or purpose. And it is highly unlikely to find an rpm that
> > would allow me to use just these libraries that I need. Besides,
> > things change from distribution to distribution, from one php
> > release version to another.
> >
> > Hence, I become independent of rpm's to avoid problems and
> > confusion. I keep notes about every new installation of apache
> > (with PHP, etc) I do and, believe me or not, after a few tens of
> > times at least i did installation, I do not need to use these notes
> > much ;) But after already making installation once, properly, one
> > knows how to compile all this stuff and not worry about finding a
> > proper rpm.
>
> Why not rebuild the RPM instead? I've had to rebuild the Postfix RPM
> before to support PostgreSQL for authentication and it was trivially
> easy. I didn't have to pollute my system with stuff that is outside
> the package manager's control.

A very good point.

I mean: of comparable quality as mine ;) 

I am saying: learn to compile. 

You argue: learn to build your own rpm. 

As for me: educative (i did not try to build my own rpm, so far)

zb.

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