SoloCDM wrote: ...
When RedHat started out, it had some conveniences, but it quickly
become so bizarre and discombobulated that I am feed-up, a voodoo act
and standing on one's head is involved. Most of the so-called-experts
in RPMs don't know what they're doing from one minute to the next. Usually installing the tarball (my form of description) is the only
available option.
So many of the RPM distributors are inventing and reinventing new ways to reroute the file to its original location. Often the files go through 6 links before you capture the original file. That doesn't include the original program from recognizing other renamed filenames that produce optional executions. This usually keeps some of the RPM installations from installing, *unless*, all the rubble is ripped out before you start. Often that *breaks* the whole structure/hierarchy apart.
Now distributors have moved to an option that supposedly entices enterprises. Usually it forces the installations to conform to their type of networking.
[conform to their type of networking? what do you mean?]
there is LSB (http://www.linuxbase.org/) and FHS (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/) to help to solve these problems. I think it's getting better.
you'd be better with other distros though - debian (packages dependencies etc. are maintained, you can upgrade across major version fairly easily (I already went through 3 major version, IIRC, with same system)) or slackware (very minimalistic and clean, you pretty much manage everything yourself (this might not be true anymore, I didn't use it for quite some time))
still, and this is pretty much for all unix(like) systems - install the packages that are part of the distribution only. Anything third party install in /opt/name-version (preferably from source) and create links as appropriate (stow is a great help). That's the only way to keep the system manageable, whether it's redhat or freeBSD.
erik
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