Duplicates of third-party libraries

Martin P. Hellwig martin.hellwig at dcuktec.org
Tue Dec 8 10:22:17 EST 2009


Lie Ryan wrote:
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> 
> The only thing that package managers couldn't provide is for the 
> extremist bleeding edge; those that want the latest and the greatest in 
> the first few seconds the developers releases them. The majority of 
> users don't fall into that category, most users are willing to wait a 
> few weeks to let all the just-released bugs sorted out and wait till the 
> package (and their dependencies) stabilize.

Well you majority of your users still fall into my category of minority, 
as most of my paid support clients use windows, although I use Ubuntu as 
my main developer machine.

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