Re: Netsaint Debian packages
Ben Bell <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.netsaint.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:54:10AM +0100, Zeno Davatz wrote: > - Do you recommend installing the Debian package of Netsaint or do you > recommend compiling from source? Are the Debian packages up to date and > stable or are the buggy? I was the initial maintainer of the Debian packages of NetSaint, but a change of job has left me without the time to devote to them. They are now maintained by [email protected]. My advice with any question of this sort is to try the packages for your distribution. As they have been built specifically for the distribution they should be more consistent with the way that dist does things, and any problems or features should already have been considered. This is particularly the case with Debian (plug, plug). In practice, some packages are always buggy. With Debian you can look at http://bugs.debian.org/netsaint and http://bugs.debian.org/netsaint-plugins (any package names will work) and see what the current bug list looks like. Arguably you get a "better" install if you use a distribution's package, but you are at the mercy of the package maintainer. Another alternative would be to get the Debian source and compile it from that to get the best of both worlds, but you would be somewhat on your own with regards support from this list. If you do decide to take that option though, contact me off list and I'll try to find time to answer any questions you have. Ben -- +-----Ben Bell - "A song, a perl script and the occasional silly sig.-----+ /// email: [email protected] www: http://www.deus.net/~bjb/ bjb Don't try to drive me crazy... \_/ ...I'm close enough to walk. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en