Re: [tlug] Installing from source versus packages (was Upgrading to PHP5 on (obsolete) Fedora (Core 1))

[Jim <jep200404@example.com>]

Erin D. Hughes wrote:

> You may be able to build a source rpm but if you will go through all that
> then why not just install from source.  

Stuff that is installed outside the packaging system can be 
difficult to maintain. For a production machine this is significant. 
It's better to work within the packaging system and make the 
SRPMs and RPMs. 

Sometimes the checkinstall utility helps.