On Monday 19 September 2005 00:35, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > (Side note: What's this obsession with Joe User everyone has? If there's > something _you_ have a problem with when using Debian, shoot. Otherwise, > synaptic is very easy to use -- even to Joe User). > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:22:30PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: > > OK, may be an overkill. > > But what happens with your solution if skype depends on libskype, which > > is not available from debian's repository ?The user has to download > > several .debs in order to install a single software ? > > You consider proprietary software developers to be competent enough to > understand how Debian is supposed to work, and then create and maintain > policy-compliant packages for their users? > > Hah. > > If they provide packages at all, they'll give you one package you're > supposed to install. If you're lucky, it may have dependencies via the > shlibdeps system. That's about it.
As a side effect such broken proprietary packages will possibly feed BTS with irrelevant fuzzy bugs. Useless noise. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]