You don't have to use ppa's, but many Deb/untu users like them.

On Aug 1, 2014 5:15 PM, "bachmeier via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On Friday, 1 August 2014 at 19:59:06 UTC, Andrew Pennebaker via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Yes it is, thank you!


...could we turn that into a full PPA?

Thanks for volunteering.

I prefer the current system. It is easier than configuring a PPA and the .deb packages are official if you download them from dlang.org. I don't easily trust a PPA. It's also not the kind of upgrade I want to happen automatically.