packaging is all well and good .. but .. is downloading a tar.bz2 and simply unpacking it really that hard?
The different distributions have seperate managers for the individual packages - all it really needs is for someone to take up the responsibility. Not just once (hit-n-run) but over the course of a few years, and get someone to take over once that becomes necessary.
The amount of trouble we had with the seriously outdated Ubuntu-package for AC has really made me - and AFAIK a number of others on the dev-team - not particularly fond of prepackaged installations. The D/L from sf.net is safe, easy and most current .. it's hard to argue against that.
The different distributions have seperate managers for the individual packages - all it really needs is for someone to take up the responsibility. Not just once (hit-n-run) but over the course of a few years, and get someone to take over once that becomes necessary.
The amount of trouble we had with the seriously outdated Ubuntu-package for AC has really made me - and AFAIK a number of others on the dev-team - not particularly fond of prepackaged installations. The D/L from sf.net is safe, easy and most current .. it's hard to argue against that.