Re: LyX 1.0 for slink
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 11:21:16AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > Tarballs end up working much better than
> > binaries in the long run,
> If this were so, I wouldn't use Debian.
> > although they can become a mess.
It's far too time-consuming to maintain an entire system with tarballs -
particularly if you use a packaging system of some kind (very important,
especially if major system components like the compiler are involved or
you have multiple admin levels). Doing a good job of it is difficult.
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Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
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