On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, nate wrote:
> It's more about the repositories themselves, the QA behind them,
> the integration of packages. A single unified source for patches,
> security fixes etc.
>
>> From Debian 5.0 (lenny):
> Total package names: 29647 (1186k)
> Normal packages: 22400
> Pure virtual packages: 319
> Single virtual packages: 2154
> Mixed virtual packages: 209
> Missing: 4565
oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than
hijacking. Quantity does not imply quality, and AWOL
maintainers who move on is a problem in all of FOSS
> No need to go to 3rd party repositories, no need to worry about
> overrides, worrying about a 3rd party repo overwriting another
> package on the system, very wide selection of well tested packages
> (and yes I stick to Debian stable, haven't needed to run 'testing'
> since about 2002).
and so R-2.9.0 is not available to you, and if your users
wanted R-xts, to extend zoo [which extends R], the only place
for those packages in Debian packaging are r-forge and CRAN
(as they are not in any 'official' Debian archive, and only
in the independents).
-- Russ herrold
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