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I too love package management like the rest of the people on this thread but the existence of this project confirms that we have a problem, distribution is pret

by aksx 11y ago

I too love package management like the rest of the people on this thread but the existence of this project confirms that we have a problem, distribution is pretty hard.

probonopd 11y ago
Linus Torvalds addresses some core issues in his "DebConf 14: QA with Linus Torvalds" talk starting around 5:40 https://youtu.be/5PmHRSeA2c8?t=5m40s https://youtu.be/5PmHRSeA2c8?t=5m40s
djsumdog 11y ago
Tools like fpm help a lot. Developers have a lot of options now too where they can install python modules and ruby gems as regular users, to their ~/.local directories. It's not ideal, but it helps. And despite all the things I hate about systemd, it does make packaging with a unified initialization script. There have been projects that have tried to do just that piece as a drop in replacement (uselessd) but have gone unmaintained.