From: chris@internal.net   
      
   On 07/07/2025 at 00:29, Mike Easter wrote:   
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> Mike Easter wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I also 'understand' the necessity for 'alternate' package schemes in a   
   >>> world of 'disparate' linux distro/s which make for greater difficulty in   
   >>> dev/s being able to provide a working package for 'all of them'.   
   >>   
   >> It’s not the developers’ job to provide the packaging for particular   
   >> distros. Leave that to the distro maintainers: they take your source   
   >> code,   
   >> and build it and package it in a form that hooks nicely into their   
   >> distro-   
   >> specific dependency system.   
   >   
   > Well, yes, but... (or yabbut...)   
   >   
   > ... the distro maintainers are very busy and 'understaffed' :-) They   
   > can't 'keep up' w/ all of the source and compiling for each release.   
   >   
   > There is a 'world' of software dev/s out there, who come up w/ a 'linux'   
   > product/source and look around at each other and say, "Now what do I do?"   
   >   
   >   
      
   Which bit of "if you're not happy with the way person X does it, you're   
   quite welcome to do it yourself" do you not understand?   
      
      
   --   
   Chris Elvidge, England   
   I WILL NOT SAY "SPRINGFIELD" JUST TO GET APPLAUSE   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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