Edward K. Ream wrote:
Davy Cottet has offered to create a Debian distro for Leo shortly
after Leo 5.0-final goes out the door. That's great, and I appreciate
the effort.
I'm assuming you mean Debian package, not distro.
When a leo distro exists, people will be able to do:
(sudo) apt-get install leo
But even without an official leo package, people can just do:
(if needed) apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor.git
Can somebody *please* explain to me why the first way is far superior
to the second. I just do not get it.
The main thing that any packaging system buys you is convenience, in
terms of:
- automatically installing/updating any required dependencies
- ease of upgrade (apt-get update; apt-get upgrade to update all
packages on one's machine)
- putting files in all the standard places for the distro in question
- for stuff that relies on the init system (not leo, I don't think),
packagers may add/modify init scripts (particularly what with systemd
replacing sysvinit as Debian's default init system in the upcoming
release - I've yet to come across anything I use that comes with native
systemd init files)
- keeping track of what's installed on your machine
Having said that, that's only useful if someone is "maintaining" the
package (keeping it up to date with upstream source):
- An awful lot of Debian packages are NOT up-to-date, and a result, a
lot of the stuff running on our servers is installed the old-fashioned
way (wget...; gunzip; tar; ./configure; make; make install)
- some software is much better at keeping itself up-to-date (e.g.,
Wordpress)
Your mileage may vary.
Miles Fidelman
Edward
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