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Re: linux client

From: Paul D. Smith <psmith_at_gnu.org>
Date: 2006-04-14 18:43:06 CEST

%% Frank Gruman <fgatwork@verizon.net> writes:

  fg> I think this is the one big shortfall of all of these Linux
  fg> distributions out there today - to many programs with to many
  fg> dependencies on one flavor of a package or another. I've talked to
  fg> a couple of other programmers who won't code for Linux because
  fg> they don't want to put users through dependency hell if the user
  fg> doesn't have the right stuff.

Well, of course if you release your code under an open source or free
software license then you don't have to care at all about any of this.
The distribution is going to manage it all for you: that's what they do
and why they exist.

The apps we're discussing here do fall into that category, I believe.

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