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Why are you writing a HowTo on installing beta software for a product that tries to be stable and robust?
I have a few remarks to your HowTo:
<ol><li>Why are you advising to install a beta version of a software package? Most SME Server are production servers and need stability. Packages that are labeled beta are well known to cause problems as they are no where near a stable release.</li></li><li>Do you really need the CentOS-testing repository? Packages installed in this repository are bleeding edge and still have to be tested on CentOS, they can not be labeled stable. As SME Server tries to be a robust server installing stuff from a testing repository is for testing purposes and not for stable releases</li><li>Why do you need mysql-server? There is already a version installed on SME Server. Is that one not sufficient? It has been proven in the past that installing a newer version of MySQL would almost certainly brake things like webmail.</li></ol>
IMHO you are better of writing a HowTo on installing the lastest stable version of this package and wait for the new version to become at least a release candidate before teaching people how to install such a package. - [[User:Cactus|Cactus]] 01:03, 30 August 2007 (MDT)
<ol><li>Why are you advising to install a beta version of a software package? Most SME Server are production servers and need stability. Packages that are labeled beta are well known to cause problems as they are no where near a stable release.</li></li><li>Do you really need the CentOS-testing repository? Packages installed in this repository are bleeding edge and still have to be tested on CentOS, they can not be labeled stable. As SME Server tries to be a robust server installing stuff from a testing repository is for testing purposes and not for stable releases</li><li>Why do you need mysql-server? There is already a version installed on SME Server. Is that one not sufficient? It has been proven in the past that installing a newer version of MySQL would almost certainly brake things like webmail.</li></ol>
IMHO you are better of writing a HowTo on installing the lastest stable version of this package and wait for the new version to become at least a release candidate before teaching people how to install such a package. - [[User:Cactus|Cactus]] 01:03, 30 August 2007 (MDT)