[GRASS5] Re: Debian GRASS

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:45:02PM +0000, David D Gray wrote:
> Following on the recent announcement of development of RPM and RPMS
> packages for GRASS, I believe it is high time that GRASS binaries are
> available in .deb format for the convenience of those using Debian and
> derivative distros. (Including possibly eventually a hook into embedded
> GRASS). 

The FreeGIS projects rpms are crafted that they can be imported into
Debian Systems using the tools called "alien".

> Also, as GRASS is now GPL, there is a good reason for its inclusion in
> Debian `main', particularly as it is a widely used system. Also, there
> is growing evidence that GIS in general is going `mainstream',

True. But the Debian project has a problem with space.
Somebody already made GMT Debian package and data packages and
added them. It causes some debate about the size and resulted it
removal of the packages, though they should belong to Debian main.

This is why Intevation GmbH believes that a seperate Distribution 
for GIS software and data is useful and started the FreeGIS-CD (which
is packed, around 600MB). This should be as independant on the GNU/Linux
Distribution as possible, which it is. :)

	Bernhard
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