Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Did you compile them yourself?
> >
> > ..... or do you just asume that it was simple to compile them
> > because you did see the binaries made by other people?
>
> Of course, I do know how the Debian packaging system works.
> Otherwise I would remain in silence.
>
> Once a package is "ported" it wouldn't be a big issue to keep it
> building over its new releases. What you have to do is write down
The Debian people don't port to Solaris but to Linux.
They even usually apply patches that cause the the software to fail on
any other platform because they don't care about other platforms.
>From my experiences, you may use Debian only to get information
about packages if you very carefully check their patches and if you
know enough in order to understand which patch is a linux related hack
instead of a definite need.
Jörg
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