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...ges provided by or for the distribution I?m using is virtually the opposite of following best practises, for a number of reasons. I only do that when there isn?t a better alternative. > or 2) that you need to follow practices established (probably) before > you were born Living in the past seldwhen is a good idea. Lots of practises that were established before I was born have disappeared, been replaced by others, or were revised. Why should I follow outdated practises? > or 3) that you stop asking the > list for thing no one in their right mind would do. > > How hard is that ma...

...ase to last, which means I?ll probably still be limited to Perl 5.8 features for a few years yet, since the remaining CentOS 5 boxes I?m supporting can?t be upgraded and won?t likely be turned off until they fall over dead. That makes Perl 5.10 ?the future? from my perspective. Living in the past seldwhen is a good idea. > If this sort of stance seems risible to you, you probably shouldn?t be using CentOS. This is what distinguishes a ?stable? type of OS from a ?bleeding edge? one. When a version of a software has been released 20 years ago, that doesn?t mean it?s more stable than a version of...

On May 24, 2017, at 6:02 AM, hw <hw at gc-24.de> wrote: > > Warren Young schrieb: >> >> CentOS 5 just left supported status, which shipped Perl 5.8.8 from first release to last > > Living in the past seldwhen is a good idea. I don?t propose to teach you about my problems ? they are, after all, mine, and I?m coping with them quite well, thank you ? but I?ll give you a glimpse into someone else?s as a lesson: the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System was still running on PDP-8s as of several years...

Mark Haney <mark.haney at neonova.net> writes: > On 10/03/2017 01:12 PM, hw wrote: >> >>> See >>> >>> https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/09/20/managing-temporary-files-with-systemd-tmpfiles-on-rhel7/ >>> >>> how to manage tmpfiles. >> Thanks, I?ll look into that. I wouldn?t consider a directory like >> /var/run/mariadb

Hi, are there packages replacing the ancient perl version in Centos 7 with a more recent one, like 5.24? At least the state feature is required.