• Gyroplast@pawb.socialEnglish
    22·
    2 hours ago

    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.

    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
      101·
      2 hours ago

      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

      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 hours ago

        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?

        • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Considering that I had to change them any time I wanted to install anything, I personally wouldn’t consider them a modification.