[rt-users] RT 3 and Debian :-)

[Michael Loftis]

--On Saturday, May 29, 2004 00:43 +0200 Bastiaan Spandaw 
<rt-users at becobaf.com> wrote:

>
> Its (rt 3.0.11) bleeding edge dependencies aren't even in gentoo's
> portage.

To me it didn't seem RT3 wanted anything at all 'bleeding edge' just 
relatively current.  The problem I did run into though was package 
maintainers wanting you to install bleeding edge by writing their deps in 
such a way.

>
> As a rule of thumb I only want to use software supported by the
> distributions packages management.
>
> So.. that leaves a question..
>
> Is it rt's problem it always needs bleeding edge dependencies? or is it
> the distributions we have to blame for (not) updating its packages? or
> is it a larger problem of OSS and its _very_ modular pillars?

Little bit of both, but I feel it's mostly the package maintainers fault 
for tieing RT to such late packages.  RT really only has a few packages 
where it requires any version.