Stefan Jakobs a écrit : > On Thursday, 14. Mai 2009 09:54:56 Corey Chandler wrote: >> MacShane, Tracy wrote: > <snip> >>> The OS administrators do not permit GCC and >>> devel libraries on the SMTP servers I maintain (and fair enough). >> Nor should they-- this is what a staging environment is for. Build it >> on a staging box, test the heck out of it, and then push the binaries >> out to the production farm. > > Ehm, isn't that why you use RPM? You compile the binaries and build the > package on a compatible system. With the package you have an easy way to > distribute the binaries. > >>> Also, >>> installing non-RPM packages can obviously cause clashes when installing >>> other RH updates (at least RPM is clever enough not to try installing >>> Postfix 2.3 patches when it finds 2.5 already installed). >> Urm... add Postfix to your yum excludes file and the problem goes away. > > Postfix provides an MTA which is a quite important part of a *nix system. To > remove the MTA package from system breaks a lot of dependencies. To avoid > that > you install your own package. >
I still wonder why my windows system works without an MTA. maybe because unix is obsolete? I don't know, but if people think that email is necessary for a unix system, then let's have a laugh. do I read my cron mail? most of it is useless... and the useful part is better presented on web page.
