Thread: [Announce] Erminig-NG: two-way synchronization Google Calendar <-> Fremantle Calendar
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2010-02-18 , 10:57
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#177
Originally Posted by tuxfoo View Post
Creating a deb at this point would likely be a waste of time. There isn't a GUI, so anyone capable of using erminig-ng installed from a deb, would still need to use the terminal to do so. If you know how to use the terminal, its not that difficult install this by hand.
Even though it would be nice with a GUI, GUI or not has nothing to do with using deb or not. If you install by hand you have no tracking of what's installed, no file-collision check, no easy uninstall etc. etc. If packages weren't needed for command-line only tools then at least ten thousand of the packages available for Debian would be unnecessary.

The above are general comments on packages v.s no packages. How bad it is obviously depends on how many files are involved etc. For testing of a single-binary tool it's not a problem to not have a .deb. Note, for testing.

NB: The above in no way should be taken as any kind of "demand" from my side as to when Erminig-NG should be made a package. They are just general comments to the question about packages vs. no packages for command line tools.
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