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Keep advertising [was Re: alternatives to gnuplot ?]



Dear all,

> [..] why are you advertizing on debian list for it? With all respect, but I
> think it that only software would be discussed on this list that have
> been packaged for this distro.

Irrespective of the fact that this particular software is packed for
Debian, I would like to point out that I would prefer that people DO keep
advertising for free (scientific) software they feel is use- and
helpful even if its NOT YET packaged for Debian.
There are so many excellent pieces of software available out there that at least
I am unaware that they exist and some of them might even solve my
problems. In the "worst" case I (as a newbie) even dare to do the Linux triple-jump
"./configure; make; make install" if the program sounds useful to me.

If, however, several people should feel offended by this kind of
advertising, how about a tag to such mails in the topic line, e.g.
"[Recommended] Superduper solveallproblems-software (yet no .deb)".
This could easily be filtered out by those who don't like that.

Just my thoughts,
 Stephan





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