tomcat 5.5

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 15:48 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote:

> Maybe I should have been more clear: experience shows that many of the
> distribution-provided Tomcat packages are patched beyond recognition and
> will cause problems eventually. That's why people on the Tomcat users
> list are reluctant to provide help in those cases, since they don't know
> whether they waste their time on a problem the poster wouldn't have if
> he'd use an upstream version of Tomcat.

You wlll get no disagreement from me on this valid point.
> 
> Good point!
> Personally, I prefer splitting things up between /opt and /srv, though.

/opt is another option to /usr/local (no pun intended!). My point is
keep locally installed software separate from the package installed
software.
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