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haven't linux package managers (e.g. emerge, aptitude, yum, etc.) basically solved the packaging problem?
by jfe 11y ago
haven't linux package managers (e.g. emerge, aptitude, yum, etc.) basically solved the packaging problem?
- ubernostrum 11y agoNot really. The problem there is updates: you'll get bugfixes, maybe even backported bugfixes, but in order to get a new version with new features you either have to deal with installing/building from a non-OS-package-manager source, or upgrade your entire OS.
- aeroevan 11y agoOr add ppa/OBS/hosted repo that builds the latest version.
- detaro 11y agoIt's quite a bit of work to make sure that a project is available on all potentially relevant distros and always up-to-date, so that only works for popular projects, and even for those there are often alternative package sources to get current versions on older releases etc.