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by jonhohle 650 days ago
So every user has to be an expert in every package manager instead? Makes sense. Make life easy for the developer and pass the pain on to thousands of users. 20 years ago you may or may not support RPM and DEB and for everyone else a tarball with a make file that respected PREFIX was enough. (Obviously a tarball doesn’t support dependencies.)
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Why would users need to be an expert in them?