Re: argh! aptitude/dselect/apt-get dieing????
Craig Dickson wrote:
> What's wrong with compiling from source? If you download the Debian
> source package, it should have everything you need to build a proper
> deb package, so what's the problem? Even if you don't build a deb, you
> just install to /usr/local, and as long as you don't break any of the
> app's dependencies, it should work fine.
You missed my point entirely, probably because I was trying to use
sarcasm and be witty, but failed miserably. :)
*I* compile things all the time and put them in /usr/local. Hell, I
usually make it a separate partition. My point was, there are some
people who use unstable because they need certain packages, or the
latest versions of them, and may not know how to compile, make a .deb,
etc.
There's testing, of course, but I know a number of people (for some odd
reason) who shy away from it because they think it's an after-thought.
You can argue that if a person lacks certain skills they shouldn't be
running this and they shouldn't be running that. Fine. I agree, to a
point. But when a package maintainer uploads a package with a blatant
typo that should have been caught with a simple test-run, it has
absolutely nothing to do with the user-base or their skill-set.
*THAT* was my point.
Mark
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