On 02/04/2010 08:42 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: > Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: >> apt-get update is so much easier. > > I'm not sold (I totally hate ports systems), but > anyway, I'm specifically confused why somebody who's > been anxious to get their hands on 1.34 wouldn't download > it themselves, or just run it through the website. My > experience has been that xml2rfc runs right out of the box, > no l337 h^x0r skillz required. It is probably true that manually installing xml2rfc is easy in itself - just download the new file and unzip it a the right place. On the other hand, I have 2544 different packages installed in my main computer. Can you imagine how difficult it would be to 1) track when new versions of this 2544 packages are available 2) download them and 3) remember where to install them. And that's without starting talking about dependencies, signatures, configuration files updates, security patches and everything else that make the difference between a crappy system and a working environment. Doing all of this requires only a "sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" each morning on the 8 computers I manage directly. So from the point of view of one software like xml2rfc, packaging seems unnecessary. From a global point of view, it definitively is. -- Marc Petit-Huguenin Personal email: marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Professional email: petithug@xxxxxxx Blog: http://blog.marc.petit-huguenin.org _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf