From: mouss (mlist.onlyfree.fr)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2007 - 17:38:06 CST

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Brian Mathis wrote:
> As I said, "Unless you have a specific need". This user is new to
> both Linux and postfix, and mentioned nothing of those specific needs.
> The fact is that out of the box, the postfix package works just fine
> for many uses.
>
> As far as your version numbers, I'm not sure where you're getting
> those. It looks like you might have the centosplus repository
> enabled, which has packages that are not standard.

it was on a 4.5 with centosplus lately enabled.

> The main repo has
> the file: postfix-2.3.3-2.i386.rpm, and for me:
>
> # postconf -a
> cyrus
> dovecot
>
> This is on a CentOS 5.1 system.
>
> Also, breaking the package management system should be seen as the
> ultimate sin, not just a mere inconvenience. The package management
> system is the very reason that one uses an enterprise-grade OS like
> centos. I agree that if ABSOLUTELY necessary, one should compile to
> an rpm first, then install the rpm.
>

while I agree on the principle, I don't think this should be taken
religiously. If the available packages are enough, there is of course no
reason to fight against problems that didn't exist. but sometimes, you
want a more recent package (subversion, dovecot, [php was an example
some time ago when only php4 was available in standard], postfix
[although the supplied versions are ok for most people] ...), or a
package with different options.

I wonder if it's worth to move to pkgsrc (I am bsd biased).

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