Re: [Phplib-users] phplib 6.1, php3 and php4

[Lindsay H. <fm...@fm...>]

Thus spake Layne Weathers on Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:41:31PM CST
> No, no, no. Why would you rely on a package created by a Linux distribution
> company? There is no way that they can keep up to date on all the little
> projects they include on their disks and if they are building their package
> from the latest releases instead of the CVS tree then you are really out of
> luck.

Let me note here that I did the unthinkable year before last - I did a
system-wide upgrade from Debian woody to Debian potato on my running
production server, and only _one_ thing broke!  Another required a reboot to
get working properly.  There were hundreds of packages involved.  I have a
lot of faith in Debian, and although I bitch about their fascist dependency
enforcement, their packages are extremely well integrated and generally of
excellent quality.  I used to run Slackware on my production server many
years ago and keep things up to date by recompiling everything from source,
but I just couldn't keep up with all the updates, and things got out of sync
and some stuff ended up being off in left field.  It was a PITA.

And stuff pulled from CVS is fine for experimental systems, and for people
with a lot of time to tinker and make things work, but it's almost always
alpha or early beta and unless you really know the development details, it's
not suitable for a production server.  Some projects, yes, but with others
CVS releases are pretty much guaranteed to have problems.  

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