  Re: Gnome 1.0 debs?   On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Christopher J.
Morrone wrote:  > I don't really think that KDE is the best
example.  For quite a while, KDE > wasn't packaged because of
the licensing issues.  Actually, those licensing issues are
still not resolved.  The latest kde version uses Qt 1.42, which
still uses the closed source license.  The KDE debs are all
packaged by one guy from the KDE development group.  But they
definitely aren't a good example of Debian packaging slowness,
because they aren't official .debs.  Packages that are part of
the official distribution would make better examples for the
sake of this argument.  > Keep in mind that there is a whole
staff of full time people working on > Red Hat, while Debian
developers are volunteering their scarce free time.  Actually,
that's not the issue in this case.  The VAST majority of RPMs
out there were not packaged by anybody on the staff at Redhat.
That's why they are so often inconsistant in quality, and why
they're everywhere. Redhat has a lar