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by bravetraveler 1303 days ago
Thank you for the packages you do maintain!

I don't want to seem unappreciative for the work developers like yourself and others do; packages or not.

I'm not a developer, but a Linux/systems person who happened to learn packaging. Mostly because I got tired of building from source, and figured others were too.

As a maintainer it is easy for me (and others) to trivialize this, as compared to actually writing the much more complicated software. It's not right, and I think we could all use more understanding.

I see a meme that 'packaging is hard', and while very rigid/plain, it's not actually that tough.

Priority is another matter, I just don't want this notion of difficulty to unfairly sway that priority. Many of the concepts reapply, like languages. The tooling/services have improved a lot

I'm not too familiar with Rust, unfortunately. What would you say makes Arch stand out in particular?

How do you feel about Fedora? https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Ru...