23 Dec
1999
23 Dec
'99
9 p.m.
my view: rpms provide better management. you can install and uninstall with ease. and i think most rpms come with all/most parameters compiled in.
My preference is almost always source. I don't however like the mess of just installing whatever all into /usr/local. What i've been using is stow (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/stow), which allows me to install each package i compile into a structure like /usr/local/stow/packagename, and then it sym links it into the /usr/local tree, meaning that everything works the same, but i can now uninstall or temp uninstall on the fly, i can find which package a file came from or which files a package came with, and i can move stuff off to other file systems if i get tight on space. Very sweet! sRp