Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 14, 2007 12:54 AM
You are right, installing a package is a piece of cake. If you have a package for your distribution. As a developer for I can't provide packages for every distribution out there. Sorry, but I do it in my spare time. Providing source only is not an option because lots of my our users don't know how to compile them. But I still want their feedback now, not when some disto packagers come arround to build a package. (You almost never get any feedback from packagers, not even when disto users report problems to them). So producing just one binary autopackage gives me much more users than building a binary for one distro. (And less hate mails about preferring distro X or using outdated distro Y.10 instead of Y.10.1) So autopackage helps developers here, the hard thing is not to install a package but to produce one for every distro.
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Re:A solution in search of a problem
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 14, 2007 12:54 AMAs a developer for I can't provide packages for every distribution out there. Sorry, but I do it in my spare time. Providing source only is not an option because lots of my our users don't know how to compile them. But I still want their feedback now, not when some disto packagers come arround to build a package. (You almost never get any feedback from packagers, not even when disto users report problems to them). So producing just one binary autopackage gives me much more users than building a binary for one distro. (And less hate mails about preferring distro X or using outdated distro Y.10 instead of Y.10.1) So autopackage helps developers here, the hard thing is not to install a package but to produce one for every distro.
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