imap server comparisons

[Lloyd H. Meinholz]

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 07:35, Jason Dixon wrote:
> On Jul 23, 2004, at 7:15 AM, Lloyd H. Meinholz wrote:
> 
> > Excuse my RH ignorance, I've been working mainly with other
> > distributions the past few years. Why would you care to make your own
> > RPM from the source tarball instead of just compiling it? Is it ease of
> > distribution to a farm of IMAP servers or are you just so used to
> > working with RPM? (just curious...).
> 
> Ease of deployment, ease of removal, rpm verification, etc.  Heck, it's 
> even easier than compiling from source.  Unless you're patching custom, 
> I can't imagine a reason NOT to use the developer-supplied method for 
> compiling the RPM from source.

I don't see configure as being difficult. You have to use it to build
the RPM anyway, right? I install in /usr/local/courier-version, so
removing is very easy.

I'm not sure what you mean by rpm verification, configure should check
for all the required libraries anyway. Does installing courier as an RPM
prevent a required library dependency from getting removed/upgraded in
the future and breaking courier?

Lloyd