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I'm using Arch and, AFAIK, it tries to use upstream code as much as possible. That's much better model IMO.
by vbezhenar 1y ago
I'm using Arch and, AFAIK, it tries to use upstream code as much as possible. That's much better model IMO.
- Hackbraten 1y agoWhy do you assume Debian packagers don’t do the same?
- vbezhenar 1y agoBecause it's well known that debian packagers alter software they package with unnecessary patches.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoOf course it's well known, but is it true?
- commandersaki 1y agoThe fact that one piece of software can be split into more than one package, yes.
- LtWorf 1y agoOn r/linux it's well known that Qt is not free software. It's that kind of information that gets passed down generation to generation although no longer being relevant.
- guappa 1y agoIt's a better model until you fix a bug, but upstream is unresponsive.
- vbezhenar 1y agoDon't fix bugs, leave it to developers.
- skydhash 1y ago> Don't fix bugs, leave it to developers Said the developer. Meanwhile the user is stuck with a broken software.
- sgarland 1y agoDo you also leave trash on the ground when you come across it in public? Try to leave things better than you found them.
- guappa 1y agoBut developers often don't fix them.
- gspr 1y agoI'm not trying to argue which distribution model is best, or whether one should avoid distributions altogether. That's messy, complicated, and full of personal variables for each individual. I'm just trying to correct the notion that somehow a distro is an "app store" that "inserts itself" between the software and its users. A distribution is an attempt to make lots of disparate pieces of software "work together", at varying degrees. Varying degrees of modification may or may not factor into that. On one extreme is perhaps just a collection of entirely disjoint software, without anything attaching those pieces of software together. On the other extreme is perhaps something like the BSDs. Arch and Debian sit somewhere in between, at either side. Thoughtful people can certainly disagree about what the correct degree of "work together" or modification is.