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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That's a big part of the problem, yes. There's lots of different patched versions of the same base version floating around out there in repo-land. If I can get back to creating a binary Linux installer for Sigil, I should be able to distribute a version of libxml2 that doesn't suffer from this issue. It won't help those who live and die by their distro's package management system, but at some point, you just want the damn thing to work for everybody, you know? Sending the issues upstream for fixing is all fine and dandy in theory. But users don't seem to enjoy the theoretical bugfixes in their favorite software as much as they do the real bugfixes, for some reason.  |
Ah, so you are trying to eventually get into a situation where you can do something like calibre's frozen linux builds which extract to /opt ?
That would indeed be nice. IMPHO a lot more software should have this option.
If only because of the dreaded Distro Freeze, when they stop updating anything in the name of "stability".
But it doesn't really affect me
since ArchLinux doesn't really tend to gratuitously patch software, so it all just works.
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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Hey eschwartz. Yeah, it's Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid but it's Xubuntu [...]
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I knew that.
Typo/brain fart. Sorry.