Paul Gear <paul@gear.dyndns.org> wrote:
I never have understood, and still don't understand, why people think typing 'rpm -Uvh packagename' is hard.
Because you have to find packagename's rpm first. Debian doesn't normally need you to do that. [...]
What other way is there? Users don't compile, users install. The FreeBSD/Gentoo philosophy of making every end user a build engineer is ludicrous, in my opinion. I started programming in C over 15 years ago, but i am not the slightest bit interested in recompiling [...]
Similarly, you're probably not the slightest bit interested in whether it recompiles as you install it, so I've never understood that argument.
[...] So the software was not a good fit for my environment and i decided not to use it, because sticking with the distribution i know means saved time and headaches.
Please learn useful standards like Linux Standard Base instead of a particular distribution if you are a sysadmin. [...]
next few weeks/months. I think it might require some adjustments to the installer, but i'm sure the Koha team will be willing to accept patches. :-)
Please. I'd appreciate you participating on koha-devel while doing this. I'll probably not be at this week's devel IRC meeting (because I'm at the Birmingham Linux User Expo) but you can always contact me otherwise.
P.S. Are my packages going to be put on sourceforge? Don't i deserve my millisecond of glory? :-)
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