Software NOT in the repositories.. / DVD Styler

[Chanchao]

This may be just a coincidence but in the last couple of days I ran into
two applications that I wanted that were not in the repositories,
quickly leading to the 'hassles of old' installing software manually,
dependency-hell, etc.

It seemed to me these were popular obvious applications too.

They were Lazarus / Feepascal  (Free Delphi-like RAD environment)

and, even more mainstream: DVD Styler. 

In order for repositories and apt-get to make sense, I think such titles
should be in there?   For Lazarus I suppose you could argue that this is
'programming' so some effort is to be expected.  But DVD Styler, which
is pretty much the ONLY Linux DVD authoring tool that has a proper
usable GUI?   (On a side note, I was VERY impressed with DVD Styler.. As
I didn't have the time/inclination to try to install it manually I just
got the Windows installer to have a look. And it rocks!  Will now try to
install on Ubuntu as well.   In it's current form DVD Styler is already
very usable and shows great promise for the future too! In some ways
it's already better than, say, Nero. (You have complete control over
where you put buttons and what you use for the button graphic.)

Cheers,
Chanchao