You hit the nail right on the head. Our goal is to get to a Zimbra *light* type source release, which will allow you to point to your local versions. We just aren't there yet. We are working on un-wrapping the unportable things we use today namely iptables and rpm. Those work very well on Red Hat and friends. They don't work as well on other OS flavors. Once that is done we can focus on supporting more distros.
So there is no magic bullet at this time. We will get there in stages, first unwrapping the incompatible things, then allowing support for more precompiled dependencies and finally the ability to just reference an existing dependency or the source.
Getting to a Zimbra *light* also saves both you and us bandwidth so it's a good thing in the long run as well. |