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doublepg23
1172 days ago
Why would you use software if you think the dev is too incompetent to package it?
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tremon
1172 days ago
Because I trust that distro maintainers catch the most obvious errors before packaging and releasing the software.
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ninkendo
1172 days ago
Package it for what? There are a lot of distros. Should the dev be packaging it for every one of them? Debian, red hat, suse, arch, other more esoteric ones? Which distro versions? How many years back should they be maintaining the packages?
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doublepg23
1170 days ago
…the context was Flatpaks and snaps which directly address it by simplifying the process… the developer would explicitly avoid that confusion.
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