Problems with Fedora PHP and Apache

[John Nichel]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Mo, den 17.05.2004 schrieb John Nichel um 16:56:
> 
> 
>>Not to reopen the "old school vs. new school" debate again, but I feel 
>>that if one is going to take on an endouver such as running their own 
>>web server, they will be better informed on how to 
>>configure/troubleshoot the application if they install from source vs. 
>>something like an RPM which is supposed to do it for you.  Not to say 
>>that RPM's don't work, but in many instances they don't provide what the 
>>user thinks he/she is getting.  Granted, this is a user issue, and not a 
>>RPM issue, but we wouldn't see as many, "why doesn't this work..." 
>>questions.
> 
> 
>>John C. Nichel
> 
> 
> I disagree. If people would spend the same amount of efforts they would
> need to get things like Apache(2) and PHP compiled from source and
> running like they want into discovering how the software is that comes
> with RPMs, they easily would get the same results, even quicker I
> believe. It is often some kind of lazyness to use the packaged software
> and then to expect reading the shipped docs is not necessary. I do not
> intend to blame the OP of this thread! I just fight against your
> argument. See i.e.

But you touch on two points that favor what I'm saying.  You say that 
that it is often some kind of laziness to use pre-packaged software. 
Exactaly.  Whereas installing from source takes a bit more work, 
knowledge, and research of that knowledge.

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