using other distro's repos?

[Derek Broughton]

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.
> 
> Well, not really... you need to upload the .deb file to a repository to
> have it automatically updated. 

Sure, but why would _anybody_ build a .deb package just for the sake of
having a package?  I thought the "put into repository" part went without
saying :-)

> However, there are many advantages to 
> having a proper .deb file... if you have a .deb file, when you install
> it on other machines, 

Then you have, in essence, established your own repository...
-- 
derek