On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:24:41 -0700 Rick Moen <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip the thank-you for originating VimOutliner and noting that I'm no longer involved in the project] > > During that period, it would have been a fine and good thing (if you > felt like it) for you to produce a .deb and publish it at an > apt-compatible repo URL. I don't know how to do the preceding, and I'm forever prioritizing other things above learning it. [snip enumeration of the advantages of installing via the package manager over installing via source tarball] > http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/weatherwax.html#1 Hard to argue with most of the preceding. > As you know, Steve, I am an avid and appreciative reader of your > technical articles -- but one of the things you frequently urge on > readers that I feel is misguided is (IMO) urging immediate resort to > upstream tarballs in cases where this is _not_ necessary and not the > best choice. I recognize what you say, freely admit that your viewpoint is a majority viewpoint for informed Linux users. But at a gut level, I've never been able to believe it. Sure, 99% of my software is package-installed and I like it that way, but for certain software that's very important to me, if I don't like the way the package does it, it's off to ./configure;make;make install. I regularly do this for LyX, Bluefish, Sigil, and all the process supervisors. As a result of my attitude/belief/mindset, I've never learned that much about package managers and especially creating packages. Which is why I asked for a APT knowledgeable partner to make the runit (or runit-init if you prefer) package. > > (To phrase my specific point about VimOutliner a different way, you do > the free-software world a notable favour by maintaining VimOutliner, > and the correct comment first and foremost is 'Thank you', so: Thank > you. If you felt like helping people even more, helping them better, > and helping more people, taking that small extra step using debhelper > to create a package would also be cool.) Cool as hell, but I'm the wrong guy for the job of package-making. The same as you would never, never, NEVER depend on me for aesthetics: that's golinux' job. SteveT Steve Litt October 2017 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
