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run your own repo or distribute your own packages from your own website, no need to be centralised.
by fungi 17y ago
run your own repo or distribute your own packages from your own website, no need to be centralised.
- antonovka 17y agoThat's way, way, way more complicated than: 1) Build a binary, put it on a DMG 2) User clicks download link, drags to any directory they want. Trying to build packages that continue to work across releases and as libraries get updated and packages change -- and operate in a compatible manner with the built-in packages -- is surprisingly difficult. Why don't more people do it? The only 3rd-party packages I come across are RedHat RPMs, and half the time, they're broken. I almost never come across 3rd party apt/yum repositories run by corporations, and the few times I have, they've been very broken (remember Ximian? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ximian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ximian)