On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, nate wrote: > It's more about the repositories themselves, the QA behind them, > the integration of packages. A single unified source for patches, > security fixes etc. > >> From Debian 5.0 (lenny): > Total package names: 29647 (1186k) > Normal packages: 22400 > Pure virtual packages: 319 > Single virtual packages: 2154 > Mixed virtual packages: 209 > Missing: 4565 oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than hijacking. Quantity does not imply quality, and AWOL maintainers who move on is a problem in all of FOSS > No need to go to 3rd party repositories, no need to worry about > overrides, worrying about a 3rd party repo overwriting another > package on the system, very wide selection of well tested packages > (and yes I stick to Debian stable, haven't needed to run 'testing' > since about 2002). and so R-2.9.0 is not available to you, and if your users wanted R-xts, to extend zoo [which extends R], the only place for those packages in Debian packaging are r-forge and CRAN (as they are not in any 'official' Debian archive, and only in the independents). -- Russ herrold