John Hasler wrote:
Miles Fidelman writes:Again, in the real world of operations - not all code is installed from packages. There's an awful lot of ./configure; ./make installThat has nothing to do with Debian. How can your difficulties installing some tarball be construed as Debian imposing anything on upstreams?
Debian is a platform, as much as anything else. Change fundamental things - file layouts, APIs, core services - that impacts anything that runs on it.
We have things like the LSB precisely to provide a standard platform. Changing the platform impacts everyone who writes stuff to run on the platform.
Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra