[Wine] Debian updates

Ove Kaaven ovek at arcticnet.no
Thu May 1 20:22:46 CDT 2008


DRNewcomb skrev:
> Ove Kaaven wrote:
>> The packaging structure of Scott's packages and mine are quite 
>> different, by the way; they follow the Ubuntu-style packaging, not the 
>> current Debian style. And I personally feel that his packaging might 
>> work fine for Ubuntu, but less so for Debian; Debian has always had its 
>> own way to do things (and those ways aren't always about making popular 
>> decisions or following the wishes of whoever wrote their software)...
> 
> Hmmm. That would have been good to have known when I was selecting which distribution to install.  However, questions seeking this sort of information seem to get cut off pretty quickly.

Hmm, how would this have affected your decision, then? It's not like one 
of these is really fundamentally better than the other, but admittedly, 
they do represent different philosophies.





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