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Every package maintainer needs to make some decisions when packaging software. Debian has very specific guidelines about packing, so if you don't like it may be
by reidrac 13y ago
Every package maintainer needs to make some decisions when packaging software. Debian has very specific guidelines about packing, so if you don't like it may be Debian is the wrong distribution _for you_.
Recently a workmate installed nginx from the upstream repo and... surprise: nginx packages things different to Debian. You may like it more or less, but there are different solutions for the same problem.
- MPSimmons 13y agoAuthor of the article here. Thanks, and I agree with you. I have some disagreements with the way Ubuntu does things like this, and I'd prefer an RHEL clone (which, of course, has tradeoffs too). That being said, I'm in the environment relatively recently and it's established, and I'm the one who has to learn to adapt since I don't see our infrastructure changing dramatically soon. Other than finally adding configuration management, that is.