<div dir="ltr">It will waste a HUGE amount of time. Compiling basic software suite takes at least a single day, and it has a mental cost of managing the dependencies by hand.<br>And you have to do that every time you update your software.<br>
<br>It's even worse than windows non-package management system.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Evgeny Budilovsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:budevg@gmail.com">budevg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">Why not compile all the latest software on some shared directory and then run it from there ...<br>
My company have policy not to give root access on development stations so I just compile all my development software in home directory and use it from there ...<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">2010/4/27 Elazar Leibovich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elazarl@gmail.com" target="_blank">elazarl@gmail.com</a>></span><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Due to company's policy, our development desktop stations must have RHEL 4.7 installed on them.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>However, RHEL's packages are extermely out of date (for instance, it still have python 2.3, etc.), and we wish to use many up too date development tools (I'm not aiming to the bleeding edge, however a stable release from the last year seems to me a desirable goal).<br>
We mostly need user-space software (editors, scripting environment, etc.).<br>What's the best method to<br><ol><li>Use reasonably new user-space software on RHEL 4.7</li><li>Not to break too much the entire RHEL echosystem, or at least provide to ourselves a clear way to upgrade the foreign packages we'll install.</li>
</ol>I'm not really familiar with managing Red-Hat distribution, so any advice will be welcomed.<br>Thanks<br></div></div></div>
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