Why is Synaptic version of Subversion not upgradeable?... and a question on forum mail handling

[Fred Roller]

On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 08:05 -0400, Michael DeBari wrote:
>         I can understand your situation, but at the same time the
>         Ubuntu
>         packaging policies serve a lot of good purposes(namely keeping
>         your
>         platform stable and secure :))...and the alternatives (if the
>         policies
>         don't work for you) aren't difficult to implement at all, so I
>         don't see
>         where the snippy comments about having to be a 'unix god' to
>         have
>         up-to-date software, that the package manager sucks, and the
>         comments
>         concerning midgets were justified. Linux is the behind in the
>         desktop
>         market for a lot more reasons than because 'the package
>         manager could be
>         better'... and the other companies' 10-15 year head start, and
>         enormous
>         marketing budgets (as opposed to little/no marketing for
>         linux) are
>         probably pretty close to the top of that list.
>         
>         Sorry for the rant... I'm tired from work, your thread struck
>         a cord in
>         my mind, and I couldn't let go. I'm not trying to offend or
>         anything, i
>         just wanted to make my stance known...
>         
>         so there :D

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