On 14Nov28:1203-0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Packaging, if anything, is an impediment to upstream developers - where you > want to write something once, and have it automagically run everywhere. If it costs them nothing to run everywhere, sure, what's not to like? When they have to expend resources to run anywhere automagically, they can start prioritizing and hope someone shows up to support the environments that fail to make the cut. > If anything, I expect upstream developers have a general dislike for > packaging and distros in general. If so, they probably accept distros as the necessary evil the rest of us do. We end users (and we are all end users; e.g., a couple years ago Linus was running Mint XFCE) really like a distro that's really close to what we would cobble together if we had to. That way we can leverage other people's distro work so we spend our time doing end user work; e.g., maintaining the kernel, creating git. We accept a distro's downsides (from our perspective) to accept the upside of not having spend most of our time getting upstream releases to play nicely with each other on the platforms we use. -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________
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