JFTR every distro is free to have it's own policy and usually they've got reasons for doing things the way they do it. FWIW I'm an Arch Linux user and AFAIK it always supports the latest version of Evolution available as binary by a package, this at least s the policy, while the default packages should follow upstream, e.g. regarding to hard dependencies.
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/evolution/ Then there's the Arch build system, it provides an easy way to compile it on our own and to build a package. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls /var/abs/extra/evolution* /var/abs/extra/evolution: evolution.install PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/evolution-data-server: evolution-data-server.install fix-google-2fa-2.patch fix-google-2fa-4.patch fix-google-2fa-1.patch fix-google-2fa-3.patch PKGBUILD /var/abs/extra/evolution-ews: PKGBUILD It in addition provides a special user repository system called AUR. http://www.google.de/#fp=70cd6391644bec71&q=arch+linux+aur+evolution Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
