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by Narann 1025 days ago
> the .deb ecosystem still feels like its stuck in the late 90s linux era to me.

Can you elaborate, please? What do you mean by this?
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klysm 1025 days ago
Quirky, clunky tooling with a bunch of arbitrary shit you have to memorize to use correctly. People enjoy that kind of thing after they learn it.
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imp0cat 1025 days ago
Enjoy? No. But yeah, it gets easier once you've done it a few times.
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klysm 1025 days ago
Not really enjoy doing, but enjoy knowing arcane shit even if it doesn't make sense.
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Narann 1014 days ago
Have you anything to point? I don’t remember any non-sense in packaging a deb.
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