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by MintPaw 42 days ago
A side note, isn't package maintenance something that can actually be solved to some extent by LLMs? The prompt would be something like "Clone this repo and build this package while building/bundling as few other packages as possible with minimal code changes."

Then set it in a loop on all the packages for a particular system, I don't have experience in package maintenance and would be curious what kind of issues would come up.
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isityettime 42 days ago
Packaging for Linux distros is about review, following standards and conventions, authority, and responsibility. (And maybe also sometimes patching for compatibility.) LLMs can sometimes help with some of the mechanical parts, but the curation and trust stuff not so much.
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OJFord 42 days ago
And everyone does this individually you mean, rather than sharing the result as 'a package'?

It's an interesting idea, not sure I'd recommend it broadly, but if someone told me they prefer to trust an LLM than third-parties I'd get it at least.

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