Unsupported packages on RHEL 2006-04-24 - By Stephen John Smoogen
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On 4/24/06, Jos Vos <jos@(protected)> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:12:01PM -0400, Lars Bjaerris wrote:
>
> > Apart from the obvious dependency issues with installing a non RH
> > supported package,
> > What in your collected opinion would be the cons. of doing this ?
>
> Depends on where you get your packages from.
>
> Often, packaging is done *very* poorly, a reason why I never installed
> a contrib package (or now a Fedora extras package) without looking at
> the spec file and sometimes redoing the whole packaging.
>
Of course some of the ones you have to do that with are the ones
kicked out of core :)
> In short: you have to do your own QA or you have a good chance of
> making a mess out of your system pretty fast...
>
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