OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du vendredi 17 septembre 2010, vers 09:08, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> disait : >> No, no, no. Users are not limited to Debian developers using Sid. Users >> may try to compile on an old RHEL 2. > In this case they should really *know* what they're doing. > RHEL is meant as an binary-only distribution - you should NOT install > arbitrary packages without going through the whole distro's build > engine and qm process, otherwise they'll risk merly all the stability > ensured by the distro - that's a design aspect of those distros. [...] > Wait a minute! Arbitrary _users_ should never try to rebuild anything > on a stable/production system. As soon as you're attempting that, > you're stepping into the package maintainer or developer role, and > then you should *know* what you're doing (or at least learn it). [...] Hello, /usr/local... >> As upstream, I care about Debian and cross-compiling but I also should >> care about people wanting to compile my software on old RHEL 2 or on >> Debian Etch (an old enough platform to require some runtime test in my >> case). None of those platforms have a recent enough autotools to rebuild >> configure, BTW. > Then they should be updated. We just don't live in the same world. Keep living in your narrow-minded world where users are not allowed to compile themselves software and where all systems are up-to-date. In my real world, I have users that are running very old distro and that cannot upgrade it nightly while everything works perfectly ans just need to test the software on a preprod system before trying to package it. -- BOFH excuse #148: Insert coin for new game
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