using other distro's repos?

[anthony baldwin]

Caleb Marcus wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 22:46 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> >     I'm not a guru of any variety, but it seems to me that if there's a
>> > .jar file then a package is kind of superfluous.
>>
>> "kind of" is the key.  You don't _need_ it, but having it wrapped in a
>> debian package gets you automatic updates.
>> -- 
>> derek
>>
>>
> Well, not really... you need to upload the .deb file to a repository to 
> have it automatically updated. However, there are many advantages to 
> having a proper .deb file... if you have a .deb file, when you install 
> it on other machines, it'll automatically install Java and whatever else 
> is necessary to run your program. It can also automatically set up 
> things like menu entries. Then, when you want to remove it, it'll 
> cleanly remove the menu entries, files, etc.
> 

yeah, that's what I'm talking about...

/tony

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