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People making distos, as well as anyone who has been bitten by unreproducible binaries generated by hand-crafted/manually driven build processes. When I instal
by subway 11y ago
People making distos, as well as anyone who has been bitten by unreproducible binaries generated by hand-crafted/manually driven build processes.
When I install software from a distro, it's been vetted and I can safely assume the software has a sane reproducible build process, or at a minimum, has had a sane reproducible build process added by the package maintainer.
If a new standard wants to solve that process, I'm all for it, but I demand reproducibility (or somebody to hold financially reaponsible, in the case of closed source)in my software builds.
- ForHackernews 11y agoNobody except weird Linux nerds and developers cares about any of the things you listed. Normal people just want to click a link and have their app install and run.
- ocean3 11y agoI don't why you are been down voted. Normal people would to download the s/w , install and run. As a developer sometimes i wish the same as well instead of hunting down dependencies.
- EdHominem 11y agoYes but the logical extension of that argument is that people don't care about food-safety because they don't know what e-coli is. And that is true.