On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 03:34:05PM +0000, Filipe Coelho wrote: > I seriously don't wish any new user to have to put up with this. > It might be easy for us that are now used to this sort of things, > but not for them.
Then they should wait until their distro or someone else provides a package. Or pay someone to do the work for them, just as they have to for commercial software, or for the mechanic you mention. Or use a distro that usually provides a shorter release cycle, e.g. Arch (which is not for noobs). > >Unless that toolchain can magically create packages for all major > >distros (and I'm pretty sure it can't do that), what's the point ? > > It won't create packages, it will create binaries - which is what > users are looking for. And how are these installed ? Bypassing the distro package management is a sure recipe for misery. Maybe not immediately, with a bit of luck the binary you just copied to /usr/bin may work. But sooner or later your users will get some serious trouble, because you're messing up their systems. If that's what you want, go on... Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
