Ok. So I’m busy installing a commercial accounting package. Or rather, “upgrading” from the GPL version to the “supported” version. What a mess. I once again remember why I so dislike proprietary software. I run Gentoo Linux. This means that pretty much _all_ the versions of everything is in flux on my systems, in other words, I may have tcl-8.5 on my system, or I may not (I might well have some other version). Anyway, the point being that I’ve now got to _force_ versions of other packages to specific versions as _required_ by a single binary-only package on my system.
This is just not fair. I feel violated. Oh, and did I mention I spent more time already on making this binary-only set of packages work than what it took me to make the GPL version work? What a shame the GPL version is no longer … I’d personally pay for the privilege of being able to use the source to install from rather than the binaries.