[fpc-pascal] Installing *.deb Packages

[Rainer Stratmann]

Am Friday 01 July 2011 19:21:31 schrieb Jonas Maebe:
> On 01 Jul 2011, at 19:09, Rainer Stratmann wrote:
> > Am Friday 01 July 2011 18:57:49 schrieb Jonas Maebe:
> >> Yes, that is possible, but that is not Debian's policy (their policy is:
> >> if it installs, it should be fully functional). If you disagree with
> >> Debian's policy, either discuss it with them, or use a different Linux
> >> distribution.
> >
> > I am always surprised how suggestions in the direction of easy install
> > and userfriendlyness
>
> User-friendliness and ease of installation is in the eye of the beholder.
> This is Debian's version thereof. Every choice has its upsides and
> downsides.
>
> > are choked because of that and that reason.
>
> The reason is that someone has to do the work. The current .deb files are
> created by the official Debian maintainers of the FPC package. If you or
> someone wants to create alternate .deb files without any dependencies, we
> can probably offer space to host them as well.

I am not familiar with the deb system and so on, but I can imagine that this 
should not be _that_ hard work to do so.
For me this seems like deleting one ore more entrys somewhere in the deb file.
Then more people are lucky than with the dependency rallye.
Rainer
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