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by guappa 884 days ago
All of those problems can be easily solved by distribution packages.
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Distribution packages are nice but:

- they require different instructions for each platform: one for each distribution: it's not possible to give a one liner that will work for all supported OS/architecture combinations, - distributions are not all updated at the speed of upstream. Sometimes users do not want to wait several years to use a recently released feature.