[Koha] memc missing

Chris Cormack chris at bigballofwax.co.nz
Sat Apr 30 11:52:08 NZST 2011


On 30 April 2011 11:47, Mizst Audens <mizstik at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know about Debian, but I've had more than my fair share of problems
> with packages from Ubuntu repo, and usually a compile from upstream source
> fixes the problems. I remember a case with php5-gd where Debian refuses to
> update their repo to the new version, causing widespread problems for any
> php app relying on image scaling. For a while, the only way to fix it was to
> compile from upstream source. So you see where I'm coming from.
> But besides that, an immediately visible benefit is that you don't have to
> go hunt for package names in repos if you use cpan. You can just grab the
> name that's given by the dependency checker.
> --Mizst

Way off topic for the koha list now, so if you want to continue
discussing why you think using packages  is worse than compiling from
source, feel free to email me off list.  (I do have counterpoints for
everything you just mentioned :))

Chris


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