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Mandrake, Slackware, then Gentoo here. Curious, do you remember when user contributable/rolling package managers became popular? Back in 2000 when I wanted lat
by jtaft 7y ago
Mandrake, Slackware, then Gentoo here.
Curious, do you remember when user contributable/rolling package managers became popular? Back in 2000 when I wanted latest software, I remember having to resolve dependencies manually (view compile errors, then yahoo/google for libraries and errors). Each dependency had to be compiled manually, sometimes requiring patching code to get things to play nice. This was always a headache lol, but felt awesome once things actually compiled.
- jjuliano 7y agoDebian is the first distro to allows volunteer to maintain packages. Then Ubuntu releases Hoary and gives invitation to be a MOTU maintainer with hangout channel in FreeNode, later on, Mercurial was released and Launchpad.net was created during Dapper days at the time where GIT is not yet mainstream, which gives way to PPA packages, then after a year, ArchLinux gains popularity, which allows anyone to submit packages using `yaourt`, a custom package manager on top of `pacman`.