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There are a number of benefits that come from letting the distro maintain a piece of software, such as unattended, or even just a unified UI for updates.
by NegativeK 3y ago
There are a number of benefits that come from letting the distro maintain a piece of software, such as unattended, or even just a unified UI for updates.
- pmontra 3y agoI know, but they are usually months or years behind. If a customer tells me that they are working with Language x.y.z I need to install that version, no matter what my distro gives me. And if a project is N versions ahead of the version in my distro, I usually install from either their own PPA or docker image. If I had one euro for every time I read something along the lines of "the version of our software available in Debian is terribly out of date, do not install it, it's full of bugs that we fixed on the last years plus new features. Follow our installation procedure instead."
- tremon 3y agoAlso known as "we want you to use our software, but we can't be arsed to spend a few dollars on a Debian maintainer".