In some retirement homes, we hear feeble cries for justice, lamenting "source tarballs are even cross-platform, just build yourself already as intended", but nobody received that suggestion from their AI assistant, just a list of packaging services you should subscribe to instead.
Source tarballs are often super sensitive to environment and distro such that you'd need to modify them to work on the specific distro/with the specific dep versions and so at that point, just precompile binaries?
It's also much quicker for the end user, nobody wants to wait 5-60 minutes for their package to install unless you're making modifications to it
lol if I go to my work pc at 9am and run winget to update all my installed stuff, it'll maybe be done by 11am. Sometimes not. And it's not even compiling anything
A new distro is built upon the concept of stackages, but dies silently not half a year later. Hardliners still use it for years after but nobody wants to maintain it.
a perceived lack of progress on the distro results in a fork. the community around these new "hackages" almost immediately bursts into flames over governance disagreements.
In some retirement homes, we hear feeble cries for justice, lamenting "source tarballs are even cross-platform, just build yourself already as intended", but nobody received that suggestion from their AI assistant, just a list of packaging services you should subscribe to instead.
Source tarballs are often super sensitive to environment and distro such that you'd need to modify them to work on the specific distro/with the specific dep versions and so at that point, just precompile binaries?
It's also much quicker for the end user, nobody wants to wait 5-60 minutes for their package to install unless you're making modifications to it
glances at my Gentoo system uhhh, do USE flags count as making modifications?
Considering that I had to change them any time I wanted to install anything, I personally wouldn't consider them a modification.
lol if I go to my work pc at 9am and run winget to update all my installed stuff, it'll maybe be done by 11am. Sometimes not. And it's not even compiling anything
A new distro is built upon the concept of stackages, but dies silently not half a year later. Hardliners still use it for years after but nobody wants to maintain it.
a perceived lack of progress on the distro results in a fork. the community around these new "hackages" almost immediately bursts into flames over governance disagreements.
What the heck, @[email protected] posted above that Stackage is a Haskell thing, and Hackage most definitely is, too. 🙃
ah, but we added an S!
Obligatory Xkcd https://xkcd.com/927/
You mean this?
https://www.stackage.org/
thanks, you just woke up my wife
introducing a new fork of stackages: flatstak!