You have sworn in the past you dont let Linux boxes in your environment? What were you installing onto what platofrm. Fedora Automacially installs RPM's from web links..
Sound to me like youre just clueless, or really good at making easy things hard.. I never install from source any more! I think the last time I did was a POV raytrace app on RH8..
I administer 30 Linux servers at work and two at home, and I never install from source! ever!
It wasn't in my environment. I was configuring some software (bugzilla, CVS, mySQL, etc) for one of my colleagues at a local university using Red Hat 9.
I knew that you would deny that this is a problem -- or try to downplay it by calling people "clueless" -- but the sad fact is that other people on this thread (and FR) have no doubt seen similar installation/configuration issues using Linux. Some people like to say that Linux is "ultimately configurable" -- which means that proper installation/config is a highly labor-intensive activity. Anybody who denies that is full of crap.