imap server comparisons

[Jason Dixon]

On Jul 23, 2004, at 7:15 AM, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote:

> Excuse my RH ignorance, I've been working mainly with other
> distributions the past few years. Why would you care to make your own
> RPM from the source tarball instead of just compiling it? Is it ease of
> distribution to a farm of IMAP servers or are you just so used to
> working with RPM? (just curious...).

Ease of deployment, ease of removal, rpm verification, etc.  Heck, it's 
even easier than compiling from source.  Unless you're patching custom, 
I can't imagine a reason NOT to use the developer-supplied method for 
compiling the RPM from source.

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Jason Dixon, RHCE
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