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What makes one “tired” of a package format?
by rubyist5eva 5y ago
What makes one “tired” of a package format?
- newdude116 5y agoI do IT but I am not really a CS guy. Too many programs that I was not able to install due to dependency problems. This is rarely a problem under Ubuntu. But I admit that it has been ages that I moved away from SuSE. I will likely leave Ubuntu if snap becomes too common or the rule. By the way, SuSE does an IPO soon but the IPO price looks steep.
- ragingrobot 5y agoNot PP, but the only thing I can figure as an end user is rpm does have a reputation for dependency hell, which is pretty much moot with front ends such as yum, dnf and zypper. I can see if I were a package maintainer I might have a different opinion, and get "tired" (more like "fed up", no pun intended) of a format. I only had to make my own packages once or twice when I was a Debian user, Debian packages seemed a chore, and I always resorted to using things like checkinstall and debhelper. With RPM, I don't hesitate to write a spec when I need a package of a piece of software not provided in the repos, and spec files are pretty easy to work with. (I tend to favor using packages over 'make install').
- gopaz 5y agoIf you package software you for sure can get tired of it :) But I would never switch to Deb, that's just a pain.