On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 18:56 -0800, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] > And why on earth does having to download the package from dlang.org > rather > than getting it from the official Debian or Fedora repos make dmd not > practically usable on those distros? Sure, it would be nice if they > were in > the official repos, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't work or > isn't a > completely viable option on those distros.
Because it involves downloading packages and running your own local repository from which to install. For Debian there is D-Apt which is a reasonable half way house (*). Actually the only house given the licencing problems with DMD. For Fedora there is nothing. The enthusiasm displayed for trying to do a Fedora equivalent of D-Apt when I proposed it was so undewhelming, I gave up even starting. (*) It should be the only way of getting the packages, replacing the hosting of files on dlang.org. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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