On 8/6/2011 12:29, Jim Henderson wrote:
> distributing a tarball doesn't make it "real Linux software",

No he doesn't. He says that's one way you can tell. And obviously he's not 
speaking technically. I.e., I think you're reading way too much into the 
part that talks about the motivation for making it work with Linux package 
managers.

> If he's "obviously talking about the distros that actually have
> packages", then the point becomes meaningless because it's self-
> referential.

I disagree. There are lots of lame ports of Windows software that's 
distributed as a tarball for Ubuntu, for example.

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