On Thursday 19 January 2006 09:57, Romain Beauxis wrote: > My own feeling about it is that the author is not very honnest with the > debian packaging work. From klik.atekon.de: "Thanks to debian for the software compilation and packaging."
> Hum... It allows non permanent installation which can be seen as good > thing, but, even if I'm not deeply aware of it, I can imagine that it needs > to install libraries and other things, and has the risk of puting a real > mess in your system... > Furthermore, the instalation script is not documented, and I had to go > through the source to know what it was doing.. IIRC it creates some kind of chroot. > > If not, I fail to see why Debian should care. We've got enough to > > worry about just making packages suitable for Debian - why go out of > > our way to help people who refuse to use Debian? > > And to people who refuse to mention their use of debian's work... See above > Romain