On Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 12:21:52PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > jrogers wrote: > > > - Manual install (like arch Linux) is fine and probably preferred. (manual is > > fine, but complete default instructions would be needed) > > Regardless of what may or may not be wrong with Ubuntu Studio, > I think you should still choose to use a system with debian > packaging. > > Yes, it has its faults, but no other packaging system comes near > it for ease of distribution, security, reliability, upgrade-ability > and so on. are you joking? its a hodge podge of perl scripts and baroque practices if you want a 'canonical', 'trusted' binary of fairly recent vintage of a somewhat popular app, im sure you can't go wrong but for stuff like audio where 98% of the stuff you want to instal resides in Git/Hg, ive had much greater availability and ease with two solutions: proaudio overlay (for gentoo) and Paludis (for handling of hg/git/vcs depchain updating) and the AUR / archaudio.org project for Arch.. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
