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Distro maintainers say that language ecosystem packaging makes it hard for them. Language ecosystem packaging maintainers say that distro package managers make
by kevinmgranger 5y ago
Distro maintainers say that language ecosystem packaging makes it hard for them.
Language ecosystem packaging maintainers say that distro package managers make it hard for them.
The year is 2021 and there is no work towards synthesis. It will be endless, fruitless yelling from each side.
Maybe 2022 will bring change. I'm not holding my breath.
To anyone who finds themselves on a single "side" in this argument: if you have ever said "why do you need to do that" as an accusation instead of with curiosity, you exemplify the problem.
- katbyte 5y agoQuestion is are the other languages saying the same thing about the distros? Or is this just a python thing
- Macha 5y agoRust/Go/Node mostly just ignore distro packagers entirely. Java sometimes has these issues, but mostly distros aren't going around splitting up fatjars for desktop applications or wars for Web applications. C# just gets shoved into opt as it was considered a problem child to be left alone for a long time. Perl has avoided this problem by stagnating at the cost of its long term userbase. C/C++ mostly get along fine since the distro package model was built for them, but occasionally someone gets upset about meson or ninja or something.