Wont you have the issue of dependencies. in a way maybe wiht a ppa and
generic package in there it you install lmms and it will pull its required
dependencies along with it.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Vesa <dii....@nbl.fi> wrote:
> On 06/20/2014 09:22 AM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> > You guys are reinventing the wheel here. Why add a .deb package to the
> > site when you can use ppa's. using the ppa's is easier i think. and if
> > im not mistaken should generally work on debian as well. Just not sure
> > if its possible to build a generic package for a ppa
>
> Installing debs is pretty easy - you can just double-click on them and
> it should open up the package installer (GDebi on mint, not sure about
> Ubuntu).
>
> A PPA would work though, if someone would take the job of maintaining it
> (and would really maintain it, too). I'm just thinking .debs might be
> easier for someone who's new to Linux and still used to the windows way
> of doing things - that's the demographic that's most likely to be hurt
> by this Ubuntu repository fiasco.
>
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