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I think the opposite is mostly true. Linux packaging folks are carefully sculpting their toys, while everyone else is mostly using upstream packages and docker
by tsimionescu 2y ago
I think the opposite is mostly true. Linux packaging folks are carefully sculpting their toys, while everyone else is mostly using upstream packages and docker containers to work around the beautiful systems. For half the software I care about on my Debian system, I have a version installed either directly from the web (curl | bash style), from the developer's own APT repo, or most likely from a separate package manager (be it MELPA, pypi, Go cache, Maven, etc).
- justinrubek 2y agoThat sounds like an incredibly annoying way to manage software. I don't have a single thing installed that way.
- kombine 2y agoI use nix package manager on 3 of the systems I'm working daily (one of them HPC cluster) and none of them run NixOS. It's possible to carefully sculpt one's tools and use latest and greatest.
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