[Kmymoney-devel] Manual chapters for FAQ and Installation

[Alvaro Soliverez]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 2010.07.23 17:00, Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> [snip]
>> What do you mean by this?
>> Clay's PPA is one of a number of unsupported repositories that offer
>> more up-to-date packages than those that come in the standard
>> installations of the main distros.
> Thanks - that's a much better wording than I was thinking.  (I was
> thinking of problems with the distro packages, not simply being not up
> to date.)
>>

You could add that there are mostly 2 kind of packages. Those that are
release version (3.97.2, 1.0.5, 3.98.1) and those which are snapshots
from the repository, and show the current state of development (-cvs,
-svn packages). Regular users are recommended to use only released
versions, and those brave ones can take a look at the state-of-the-art
by installing the repo snapshots.


>> There are similar packages for OpenSuse (Packman), Mandriva (Jose
>> Jorge's RPMs) and Arch (my AUR packages).
> Should we include these, or should the handbook just point to the web
> page, and we can add them there?

The forum has an intent of a list, but I don't think it's up-to-date.

>
> Normally, I think the handbook should be self-contained (for running
> off the net) but if someone is going to download a package, they
> obviously have net access.

I agree.