On 09/06/2015 02:47 PM, Steve Jenkins wrote: > On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Viktor Dukhovni > That's fine. I wasn't trying to pick a fight, or even be contrary. My > question was sincere as I'm always interested in learning. If there are > valid reasons why one should completely avoid building Postfix from > source on RHEL and/or any other platform (aside from voiding RedHat > service contracts, which I don't care about), I'd love to carefully > consider those reasons. Perhaps it would change my mind. If the reasons > are Postfix-specific, then it's possible this list is the right place to > discuss it. > > But if they're not, and this is John's opinion about compiling ANY > source code vs. rolling your own, this list is NOT the right place to > discuss it, and I'll be grateful if John contacted me off-list with his > thoughts.
There are genuine reasons, but if you want to discuss them then join #centos on irc.freenode.org and someone will be happy to explain it to you. The packages in ghettoforge are mine, I highly recommend them as a much better alternative to compiling your own. Peter
