On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:38:03PM CET, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> said: > > At the end-user level I think Debian has a logical flaw. > It presumes that all software is always available in a repository (be > it FOSS/proprietary, trusted/untrusted, whatever distinction). > Yesterday I found a program (in beta) whose functional writeup was > interesting. In the latest revision a deb package was added to the > previously available formats. I downloaded the package with my > Windows machine (it was available at the instant). I now have a deb > package on a flash drive which Debian can read but has no built-in > convenient method to install.
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