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["Ricardo Izquierdo" <odracir_redwolf AT linuxmail.org>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:50:51 -0800
To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Re: I'm sorry

> On Tuesday 30 March 2004 6:53 pm, Ricardo Izquierdo wrote:
> > Yes I think that but also, Duane, you "cast" light over my perseption
> > with a very valid point, because what i understood is that Arwed is sitll
> > maintaining the spell in the grimoire and sending it to the project's 
> > page.
> >
> > Maybe I'm still wrong and making a wrong perseption about that issue. What
> > I understood, taking debian as an example, is that the project members 
> > make
> > the dpkg file and release it under the project's web page. But maybe, I
> > could be wrong and a debian developer makes the dpkg file and sends it to
> > the page. If this is the question, we can do the same. And also, I know
> > that debian has its own repository for all the packages that debian
> > handles.
> >
> > Any comment about this?
> >
> > Odracir Redwolf
> > Wizard's Aprentice
> 
> I think you're comparing apples and oranges here.  Debian's packages (no 
> matter who prepares them) are the programs themselves, while Source Mage's 
> packages are scripts which basically describe the program, how to get it 
> and 
> how to compile it.
> 
> I have thought about this many times, and, really, the Source Mage spells 
> have 
> no business being out of a grimoire and on the programs' sites.  We can 
> tell 
> the programmers about ourselves and let them know we exist.  We can tell 
> them 
> about our distro and how we make it easy for users to install and use their 
> programs.  But we should not expect (or even want) them to put the spells 
> on 
> their sites.
> 
Thanks for the light in my path Jason

Odracir Redwolf
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