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click here. RE[4]: Good Article by segedunum on Fri 6th Oct 2006
17:11 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Good Article" Member since:
Excuse me, but when did you prove it doesn't scale ? Like I
said, the repository will accept your package just fine.  It
doesn't scale because it's entirely dependant on the developer
resources available to package up for each repository and each
distribution, whereas if you just provide a generic package it's
done for everyone.  I could give you the big ones (KDE and
Gnome) which are updated nearly instantly, because you see, KDE
and Gnome devs make the effort to provide their product to
distro.  You really have no clue at all. Gnome and KDE
developers do no packaging whatsoever for distros. Canonical,
Suse and other distros have entire teams of people that package
up Gnome and KDE for their respective distros and repositories.
What are Canonical and all these other distros going to do?
Employ teams of people to package up s