[tor-relays] How to update tor on my raspberry

[Roman Mamedov]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 20:37:10 +0000
Peter Garner <ipad at petergarner.net> wrote:

> True, but compiling from source is more educational..

It's not, unless you apply some changes of your own to the source code.

If you don't, then it's just a difference between entering one set of commands
(and waiting considerably more), vs entering another set of commands.

And if you meant "educational" as in useful for the future in a *nix system
administration job, then nope, compiling random pieces of software from the
source is not how you manage a park of servers (not to mention keep it up to
date...). Not useful for learning programming either, as there's zero
"programming" in "configure, make".

In fact installing from the source is often done in a terribly wrong way, via
simple "make install", which avoids your OS'es package manager, and just
directly copies random files into your system -- often you won't have the
means to cleanly uninstall that.

To summarize, compiling from the source is "educational" only in the sense of
teaching yourself to use a wrong and useless practice, instead of doing it
properly via correctly setting up and using the package manager.

-- 
With respect,
Roman
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