Backports? Just say no! [Was: I don't want to beat this > to death, but...]

[Jeff Waugh]

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 13:15 +0100, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> Belittling people for wanting to use a
> current app, one in which most users will spend 90 percent of their,
> isn't helpful. Just tell them to install it in /usr/local/bin and that
> it isn't supported. Fine.

The comment was about backports in general (which is something we would
like to discourage as much as possible), not about the people who need
to run new versions of applications for specific reasons.

Note that you don't even need to install it in /usr/local/bin, you can
just use the mozilla.org binaries and install in your home directory. If
you don't care about Ubuntu security support for a particular app, there
are plenty of ways to go about installing it.

- Jeff

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