On Sunday 08 December 2002 20:00, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:03:05PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Which is why I ask for the second option -- a tarball. Let Debian, > > Gentoo, BSD, whoever do their own packaging. This includes any of those > > groups' users. > > Debian wont package most of the non free software. >
But it gives us the option. It also makes it easier to write installer packages like the real networks one without mucking with rpms.