On Monday 06 August 2007, Craig Ringer wrote: > John R. Culleton wrote: > > On Monday 06 August 2007, Craig Ringer wrote: > >> There should be no need to build Scribus from source. You can if > >> you like, but it's probably nicer to use packages to do the job. > > > > One of the strengths of Linux is the ablility to go forward and > > backward thorugh versions of a package by downloading tarballs > > and copiling them. Packaging systems just get in the way, as the > > instant case clearly illustrates. > > It depends on the user.
In the instant case it depends on Ubuntu. Ubuntu doesn't have the stable version in its repository and therefore the user is stuck with a mostly unusable unstable version. Either he compiles from source or does without Scribus. -- John Culleton ATTN Publishers/authors: If you don't read you don't succeed. Free short list of publishing/marketing books. http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf
