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by thomastjeffery
778 days ago
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Why? Because there is. Every package repository has a community of maintainers who make sure a package is compatible with their OS/distribution. That's just the way each linux distro solves this problem. It's worked out pretty well so far, despite the sheer number of redundant packages. Why not? This kind of script is a generally bad idea, because it's hoarding the responsibility of package maintenance. The better solution is to maintain a working package (better yet, convince someone to maintain it for you) for each distro's public repository, good documentation on their wiki, and working links to that documentation in your readme. Why not not? Despite being a bad idea, it's not a hard idea. The implementation of this script is likely easier to manage than doing it the proper way. -- Now if you really want to feel upset, start looking at build systems... |
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