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Re: pros/cons of installing from source



On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:42:40PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:

> I understand Greg's comments to be about Debian's commitment to
> enforcing a packaging policy, i.e. a policy on where and how things
> are installed. To me is quite a different thing than a social

AOL

> policy. In Debian, if the install scripts of a package to not put
> things where the policy says they should be _that_ is a bug in the
> package. It may also be considered a bug in some other distro.s. I've
> not kept track of this sort of policy issue in any other distro. since
> I discovered Debian.

It's not only a bug, it's a Release Critical bug. This means it is
either fixed or the package will not make the stable release! How many
distro's have this?

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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