X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com From: Kai-Martin Knaak Subject: Re: [geda-user] Happy birthday Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:11:11 +0200 Organization: Institut =?ISO-8859-1?Q?f=FCr?= Quantenoptik Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <55F7EE7F DOT 101 AT unige DOT ch> <20150915115059 DOT 5939 DOT qmail AT stuge DOT se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Complaints-To: usenet AT ger DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.75.102.197 User-Agent: KNode/4.14.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id t8FKBTWq014762 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via geda-user- Ht4Cp5ncgjRBDgjK7y7TUQ AT public DOT gmane DOT org] wrote: > Juergen Harms (juergen DOT harms AT unige DOT ch) [via > geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >> distributions have the policy of strictly limiting the distributed >> software to stable versions of upstream packages. > > Yes, it's really sad that distributions offer so little added value. > Well, to me the fact that my distro offers geda in the first place is already sizable added value. I can do apt-get build-dep pcb-gtk and the system installs all packages necessary to build pcb from source. This significantly simplifies the process to compile the latest version form git head. All dev-packages are already in place -- well there may be an odd exception like currently with liblts when a new dependency is introduced. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get