On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 09:40:03 am Chris Browet wrote: > If I take Ubuntu, a "lambda" user is stuck with the same Merkaartor version > for 6 months. Its only way to get updated versions is to do modifications > to its config to add additional repositories, and then it still depends if > the Ubuntu merkaartor package manager keeps up (If it is Bernd, I'm sure > it is, but I don't think he handles Ubuntu day-to-day). > And it is far worse for lesser-known distro.
I use Ubuntu, and Debian sid/experimental packages (downloaded manually from packages.debian.org) usually work without problem. Problems do arise when a new dependency is added (e.g. the libzbar dep in 0.16). -- Samat K Jain <http://samat.org/> | GPG: 0x4A456FBA In theory, theory and practice are the same---in practice, however, they are not. -- None (71)
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