On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Bob of Donelson Trophy
<bob AT donelsontrophy DOT net> wrote:
>
> Myself, I have begun using stable tarball versions of software in place of
> distro version packages. Some distro software versions packages lag too far
> behind the releases. This ties to how quickly the package development is
> advancing. In the last few months, now that Craig has time, things have
> moved very quickly. If this pace keeps up, IMHO, stable tarball is the way
> to go. But, that's me.
>
> I am thinking of installing my BackupPC boxes from source to stay current.
>

It might be even nicer to add the rpm-building script into the source
repository so anyone could build an rpm of a new version and install
without losing the file management features of rpm.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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