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> I can't say that's been my experience, once I figured out [dozens of moving parts] That's the whole point. Nobody doubts that the Debian tooling works (it ev
by creshal 5y ago
> I can't say that's been my experience, once I figured out [dozens of moving parts]
That's the whole point. Nobody doubts that the Debian tooling works (it evidently does), but the learning curve to get to that point is massively steeper and longer.
Makepkg you can figure out in an hour, at most an afternoon for the finer details like custom patches; reliable Debian packaging takes days or weeks to understand set up.
- _d7dt 5y agoI don't think it took me that long. I said this elsewhere but to me that is mostly a documentation problem, not anything to do with the underlying technology or the package format.
- pxc 5y agoWhen I was a teenager, running Arch for about a year in part to take advantage of patched/bleeding edge copies of WINE from the AUR, I decided Arch sucked and to try out Ubuntu (I'd mostly used Gentoo, Sabayon, and openSUSE previously). Recreating the patched packages and setting up my own PPA for them was pretty much trivial. It did not take a whole day to figure out. The Debian system is a little clunky, but it is not hard. If you're a user of Ubuntu or Fedora or openSUSE whatever, learning how to create DEB and RPM source packages and upload them to OBS or Launchpad is way less work than setting up Arch for the first time.