On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 09:45 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 27 novembre 2005 à 16:26 -0600, Ian Bicking a écrit : [...] > > easy_install works, right now, for these packages. There are some > > outstanding issues, and those issues can probably be resolved in > > easy_install, without any intervention by Debian. Maybe the simplest > > resolution is adding an option like: > > > > easy_install --already-provided=1.2.6 ElementTree > > We're not going to tell our users to use easy_install for some kind of > packages and some other thing for another package, and so on. They > expect to be able to install anything, just by typing "apt-get install > foo".
Actually, provided easy_install puts things in /usr/local, I'm happy with this. I regularly don't use apt-get install when I want something bleeding edge which is not (and I don't expect to be) packaged. The point is; this is not a deb, provided it behaves as a non-deb should, it is OK. However, when I want production ready software, I look for debs. If it ain't deb'ed, it's almost certainly not ready for production. If you want your software taken seriously, you want it well deb'ed :-) -- Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
