On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:51:34AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > > And I would say that starting from the tarball and rebuilding a source > snapshot or from svn has given me no trouble on Debian or Slackware, > while saves me being stuck several years behind reality. However FPC and > Lazarus are about the only things I install this way, /particularly/ for > system libraries I rely as much as possible on the distro.
True, and that is no problem. It is not that we are against it, just that the responsibility (and support) for such packaging lies with the distribution (packaging is what they do!). The FPC team only has a facilitary duty there. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
