Edgy Third Party Package Management

[Jan Claeys]

Op vr, 02-06-2006 te 00:20 -0500, schreef Scott Dier:
> I don't see why someone like say, mathworks or wolfram, would implement 
> a Ubuntu package but not instead just support lsb.  They do neither at 
> this point, as far as I can remember -- they instead usually either 
> statically link everything or compile against 2-3 year old targets for 
> libc and include their own copies of libraries or statically link them 
> if needed.
> 
> lsb isn't the prettiest way of dealing with it, but most isv's have 
> better things to do than mess with support fedora/redhat/ubuntu/suse/etc 
> all at once. 

They can have other people to do that for them (probably under NDA).


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Jan Claeys