Re: [be] Bibledit 4.6.1 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[Lance W. Haverkamp]

> 
> If the CrossWire PPA is out of date, I'll gladly rebuild from latest
> Debian 4.6.1 source package and upload new packages to it.

In this case (and most likely every case), the CrossWire PPA was just a
few hours behind; I saw my system auto-update to 4.6.1 first thing this
morning.




> 
> I'd rather people are encouraged to use packaged software, than to build
> things from source and add them under /usr/local/ which tends to cause
> issues longer term 
[snip]
> 
> I'd *much* prefer that the wiki documentation made it very clear that
> when they exist, installing Ubuntu or Debian packages is preferable to
> building the software from sources and installing under /usr/local,
> because packages allow all the usual benefits of package management to
> apply.  

Agreed!  In all Debian & Ubuntu systems (and all their children; Mepis,
Mint, etc) this is highly preferable.

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