Makarius> In the end the main question is how to serve users best.
Makarius> There is hardly anybody missing a Debianized version of
Makarius> Isabelle, but people occasionally come to me and say I should
Makarius> bundle even more things in the one big Isabelle distribution,
Makarius> bypassing problems of their standard OS packages.

Here is one datapoint the other way.  I wish Isabelle was DFSG free and
I wish it was possible to package it.  I will not use the binary bundle,
just as I will not use a binary bundle of, say, Adobe Reader, however
convenient it might seem at any given moment.

I would be interested to know what the "problems of their standard OS
packages" are, in the case of Debian.

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