<div dir="ltr">They are not crazy but you will be jumping through a bunch of hoops you don't need to. There's only a very few edge cases where you might need to compile-<div><br></div><div>Bottom line-- If you need a feature not in the packaged version, compile your own (I would still package it.)</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Neal Rhodes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com" target="_blank">neal@mnopltd.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Trying to get back on A topic which relates to linux....<br>
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If you were charged with putting up a secure internal Web Services framework on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.4 for a financial application, would you:<br>
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"yum install tomcat6"<br>
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or, <br>
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go to Apache.org, download the sources, compile, and pray. <br>
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No, this is not a trick question. I've always just used the tested supplied Redhat version which "just works". But there are apparently other opinions, just trying to figure out if they are crazy. <br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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Neal Rhodes<br>
MNOP Ltd
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