[Classiccity-pm] Mod Perl Question

[Shawn Boyette]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 03:39:59PM -0400, Mark Hazen wrote:

> Debian has very good packages with pretty sane defaults, but is pretty
> atrocious when it comes to mixing in prepackaged items and compiling and
> installing applications from source... 

I found rather the opposite to be true: one big reason I abandoned
RedHat all those years ago was that I found *it* very bad at handling
handbuilt things, multiple versions of libs, and the like (note: I'm
talking about redhat 5 here), while it's never been an issue with
Debian.

> Also, the versions of softwar ethey
> use are, for the sake of sticking to the tried and true, pretty far back in
> history for a lot of things.

This is only true if you're using the Stable distro. And when Debian
says "Stable", they don't mean "Not Broken", they mean "Guaranteed
Never To Change Except For The Most Important Security Patches And
Bugfixes". Stable, in a nutshell, is for building business apps on top
of. Most rational desktop users should use the Testing distro, which
gives you all the up-to-date goodness of the Unstable (Development)
distro, but with a 10 day no-bugs-filed delay on packages. It really
is the best of both worlds. All my servers actually run Testing.

As something of an aside, I never had anything but the worst of luck
with distro-supplied Apaches, especially complicated ones like mod_*
variants; I always build Apache by hand. so I was initially pretty
confused by this question. As in "What the hell Apache gots to do with
your distro?"

-- 
Shawn Boyette
mdxi at collapsar.net