Re: ROOT and repositories

Dear Axel,

Axel Naumann wrote:
> We, the ROOT team, generally have two options:
> A: encourage other people to regularly provide new packages for the most
> common distros (Debian being definitely one of them)
> B: discourage the use of distro packages because they are by definition
> out of date.
>
> I finally ended up where most of my colleagues arrived a long while ago:
> going for option B.

 >
> Maybe Debian should simply remove the ROOT packages. Could you try to
> get that arranged?

(Cc'ing Christian Holm Christensen, the maintainer of Debian's ROOT packages.)

Actually, Debian release managers seem to have removed ROOT 5.24 already (which initially had been targeted for the upcoming squeeze release).

Personally, I think option A would serve many ROOT users very well (especially those who use it only casually) and I'm a bit sad that it doesn't look like as if it's going to happen...

Having said that, distributions might be more eager to pick up ROOT if it would adhere to standards more (FHS comes to mind...) making packaging easier.

Just my 2 cents.

Cheers!

Thiemo

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