16 Jul 11, 10:55AM
(16 Jul 11, 01:55AM)flowtron Wrote: packaging is all well and good .. but .. is downloading a tar.bz2 and simply unpacking it really that hard?No, but what's hard is keeping all your downloaded and unpacked stuff up to date :P
On the other hand, if the package maintainers can't keep the stuff updated on their end, you end up having to do exactly that. That problem seems to specifically affect Debian, Ubuntu and all those other distros focused on stability. That approach works fine as long as all applications need maximum compatibility within the system, but not much to the outside. AC, on the other hand...
But really, not all distros are like that. Arch:
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$ pacman -Ss assaultcube
community/assaultcube 1.1.0.4-2
A realistic team oriented multiplayer FPS based on the Cube engine