On Wed, 01 May 2013 10:27:27 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > > It's necessary, and the way to convince developers is to stop > > providing a nasty hack as a not-really-working alternative. > > As downstream packagers, do we or can we really expect to have that > much influence of upstream developers? If the big binary distros are > willing to package these things without complaints, then how likely > is it that upstream developers will change their ways? Big binary distros already deal with this problem... -- Ciaran McCreesh