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Re: [OctDev] pkg install and distribution problems
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Claudio Freire |
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Re: [OctDev] pkg install and distribution problems |
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Mon, 28 May 2012 13:47:13 -0300 |
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
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> It depends if those bugs are important or not for the person using the
> package. Typically, for a Debian user, they are not. If Debian users
> wanted to be running the latest of everything and compiling everything
> from source, they wouldn't be using Debian, but a source-based
> distribution like Gentoo.
That's not entirely true.
Users may care enough about one group of software to build the latest
from source, but they may not want to do that for the entire system.
In fact, anyone able to build will usually do that in Debian, since it
moves so slowly.