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by skydhash 639 days ago
I know that the Linux way is not perfect, but I don't know how companies can't do better than the distro maintainers. Most repositories packages are driven by some kind of build scripts. I don't expect it would be that hard of a job to create one for your software for the most popular ones. Anyone using obscure distros are familiar enough with Linux to do container or chroot environments. I like the fact that my environment is a complete one, not siloes where the developer is more than happy to let the software lingers. At least macOS force developers to upgrade, Microsoft's backward compatibility's promise is keeping so much crust around in the system.