[conspire] Thank you

[Tony Godshall]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Ross Bernheim (rossbernheim at speakeasy.net):
>
>> I am basically a linux desktop user. I do however always look for the
>> deb package first!
>
> Look for, in order:
>
> 1.  Maintained package from within your distro.
> 2.  Package in a third-party repo.

Um.  I'd qualify this.  Better be a site you have
reason to trust.  If there's any question at all,
I'd build the source package from my distro's
bleeding edge branch before I'd grab a third
party built binary.

> 3.  Source tarball with a build tree for your distro (debian/rules
>    subtree for Debian/Ubuntu/etc., spec file for rpm-based distros).
> 4.  Source tarball without distro build instructions.
>
>
>> Repsnapper is an exception. As noted on the software's page, there are no
>> packages for any distros and you need to compile.
>
> Indeed.  I wanted to make sure I stressed the need to look for preferred
> formats, and explain what order of preference applies and why, in order
> to address the _general_ case -- because this keeps coming up.
>
> FWIW, you should _not_ automatically trust to the upstream developer's
> page if it claims no third-party package repository (for your distro)
> exists.  Such claims are often outdated.  Search first before believing.
>
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