Re: additional virtual packages for kde
> On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 09:32:51AM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> > > I'm not entirely unserious here. I agree with Christian's earlier
> > > post; do we really need to go out of our way to support a
> > > non-debian-maintained package?
> >
> > we don't support it. we make sure, that their packages will not brake
> > our packages, and vice versa. what is wrong with this ?
>
> We are still supporting their packages in the sense
> that we support their installation. Should any package
> reference packages that aren't available in any of Debian's
> three distributions (main, non-free, contrib)?
IMHO this is not the point. The point is that some user may end up with a
broken system. It doesn't have to do with supporting KDE but supporting the
end-user.
By the way, I don't really think this is going to be such a "common" problem
in the future. KDE is special in that they have a big product and release the
code so that we can build our own packages and at the same time, they want
to have their own. The usual scenario is more likely the one we have with
Netscape, where only the binary is distributed.
Anyway, as before, I am not sure what the best "technical" solution would be,
but would like to point out that in the interest of our users we should have
some sort of solution.
Thanks,
Luis.
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Luis Francisco Gonzalez <luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
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