> I'm pretty much with Lucky on this one. Sure, off in some poor Another thing that never quite made sense is packaging, especially under open systems... GNU/Linux, *BSD. Porting the source tarball itself to the current release branch and maybe a rev or two back I can understand.
But being beholden to building, packaging and releasing binaries, and playing the distro of the year quirk game has baffled me. That's the job of the distros, and most apps exist in their package systems anyways. If they're not current enough, the users should be using the same brains they used to install, learn and operate their open OS to untar, make, make install the conveniently ported source tarball. I do like the embedded/smartphone ideas and of choosing one open OS to make a cd/memory stick. So long as they're all current majors of course. Tis all.
