KDE 3.5.6 released w Kubuntu packages (hold up there!)

[Derek Broughton]

Scott Mazur wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:23:39 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote
>> No, I mean that it used to be that the rpm-based distros all used rpmfind
>> and tended to grab their rpms from anywhere, and the non-rpm, non-debian
>> distros _always_ used to work from tarballs.  Now the rpm-based
>> distros are moving more and more towards apt, and even the big all-
>> source distro, gentoo, has package management, and while I'm not
>> sure any significant distro still works from tarballs, every app
>> developer still produces them and almost all the users know what to
>> do with them.
> 
> Now that sounds like a boat load of crap 

Nice language.  

> that could only come from someone 
> who's never lived outside the debian world.
> 
> First of all it's never been true that rpm-based distros all used rpmfind.

Sorry, never meant to say the distros all used rpmfind.  My experience,
however, is that users of those distros used to use rpmfind to get rpms
from many places.

> Rpmfind is a place of last resort to 'maybe' get an application that your
> 'rpm-based' distro never provided and there was no other way to get it.

Agreed.  So I make a small mistake, and you call it a "boat load of crap"
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derek