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A "good" response? It was very polite and informative, and I do appreciate that - but "you can package it yourself" is still ridiculous. Imagine upstream author
by JoachimSchipper 16y ago
A "good" response? It was very polite and informative, and I do appreciate that - but "you can package it yourself" is still ridiculous. Imagine upstream authors needing to get packaging rights from Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Gentoo and FreeBSD just to give most (most!) users a nice way to install a non-broken version of their software.
- blasdel 16y agoTo be fair, both Gentoo Portage and FreeBSD Ports pride themselves on shipping the upstream's software verbatim wherever possible (though on Gentoo the upstream ./configure options are exposed to users, occasionally causing grief).
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoYes, I know. What are you trying to say?
- blasdel 16y agoThat they shouldn't be lumped in with the binary distros driven by release cycles and package freezes — they're the least likely to need an intervention from upstream.
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoYes, certainly. My point was "if everyone did as Debian does, publishing software would become an enormous chore". I didn't mean to slight Gentoo/FreeBSD - or, for that matter, Red Hat or the others.