On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 19:16 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 04:24:00PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > > > I wonder why people is so reluctant about installing packages from the > > outside when this involves upstream projects which are well-known and > > trustworthy :-? > > It adds another layer of unnecessary complexity. If you can do > everything using packages from Debian mirrors, then there is only one > place to report bugs, whereas if you come across a bug *AND* are using > 3rd party packages, it only complicates bug triaging, and your bug will > probably be closed as unable to reproduce. Note, some maintainers are > not interested in bug reports if there are 3rd party packages involved. > > See vlc bug reports when deb.multimedia.org repository is enabled, for > example. > > There are probably other reasons, which escape me at the moment.
Third party repositories can provide libraries that are ok, when you install them, but someday those libraries might cause a dependency conflict, if you upgrade or install new software. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1347264553.11998.51.camel@precise
