svn and cmake.

[Derek Broughton]

John Culleton wrote:

> First, I was disappointed in Kubuntu in several respects, not the
> least of which the silly restriction against  signing on as root.

Man, I get SOOO tired of people complaining about this.  There is no such
restriction.  There is, however, a very well-thought policy that doesn't
create a root login by default, and that policy has absolutely nothing to
do with trying to prevent users from becoming root.  Why on earth did you
bother to install Kubuntu if you want something completely different? 
(That question applies to using cutting-edge software, too - Debian/Ubuntu
_don't_ provide the cutting edge packages, because they're not intended for
users who are into experimenting at that level, and because it takes time
to ensure that packages actually work in the distro's environment).

> This list is probably not the right one to discuss the innards of
> Debian testing so I'll look for a more appropriate one. Thanks for
> your help with subversion. Guessing what Debian/Kubuntu calls things
> is a bit of an art form.
 
No, it's not.  It's simplicity itself.  "apt-cache search svn", or even just
search in the default package manager.

Still, since the project is called "subversion" (see
http://subversion.tigris.org/), not "svn", it would seem that subversion
would have been a pretty smart choice.
-- 
derek