Re: [Hampshire] RAID and LVM boot disks

2009/6/3 Stephen Davies <stephen.davies@???>:
> As someone who pretty well only uses RH based distros I can't remember
> when I last had to 'drop a tarball' or even build something from source
> with RHEL, Centos or Fedora unless it was an RPM that I was building myself.
>
> The contrast of the above to a job I did at the start of the year where
> I had to use SLES and make a whole lot of commercial software work as
> the customer put it 'just like it does on Red Hat' was a real PITA
>
> Every distro can have dependency hell  issues if the rpm/dpkg packages
> are put together  in a 'crap' way. One case I can site is of a piece of
> commercial software that was all binaries or config files that had 'gcc'
> as a dependancy. I asked the supplier 'why?'. All they could say was 'it
> has always been like that'. Sigh, bang head against a brick wall and try
> to explain to customer why they have to have a 'C compiler' on their
> system when they will never use it.
>
> Stephen Davies
>

A "C compiler" is about the first thing that goes when locking down a server.
Which commercial software was that?
Oracle is another bit of software that I dislike. Having to install X
just to go through the simple install steps is not friendly. There is
a command line option, but for that you have to answer many more
questions than the GUI asked. A simple ncurses install script instead
of the X GUI would have been fine!