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> but nobody at the distro I use has packaged up the app But you're "at the distro", and you want to use it, so you package it :) You might want to be nice to
by embedding-shape 2mo ago
> but nobody at the distro I use has packaged up the app
But you're "at the distro", and you want to use it, so you package it :) You might want to be nice to others too, so you make that public. Eventually, the community might end up relying on it, and the package gets an official maintainer from the distribution itself.
- card_zero 2mo agoSo, manually configuring and updating software is complicated and a waste of time. (I'm not even mentioning the stupid thing called "installation and uninstallation".) With package managers, we have displaced this complicated waste of time so that the responsibility for it becomes vague, and as a result sometimes you can't have a nice thing.
- embedding-shape 2mo ago> and as a result sometimes you can't have a nice thing. I've been able to have all the nice things I've wanted, but I also sit down and learn the distributions I use, including how to package stuff, so I can do that myself for things I want to use :) Some distributions like Arch makes this "self-packaging" extremely easy and simple, and today with LLMs I'm guessing you can get the agent to package most standard software people ship today in under 5 minutes into something acceptable for your own use.