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minus-squareKrafty KactuslinkfedilinkEnglish34•11 months agoPlus, developers can create their own repositories that can then be used on any distro.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•11 months agoDevelopers are exceptionally bad at packaging software though.
minus-squareKrafty KactuslinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoStill better than developers providing .tar.gz files or hosting an apt repo.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•11 months agoDepends, at least with the APT repo there is a chance they used lintian to avoid the worst mistakes.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•9 months agoSo having 1 packaging format that works across distros is good.
Plus, developers can create their own repositories that can then be used on any distro.
Developers are exceptionally bad at packaging software though.
Still better than developers providing .tar.gz files or hosting an apt repo.
Depends, at least with the APT repo there is a chance they used lintian to avoid the worst mistakes.
So having 1 packaging format that works across distros is good.