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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't understand why would people not be on debian does not compute

[-] tslnox@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

I'm on Gentoo for example. I can write an ebuild to automatically download said deb, extract it, install it with the package manager... And if the site has any semblance of organization involved, I can write one ebuild that will always download the version specified in its name, so when there is an update, I can copy the ebuild, change its name to new version and if the dependencies or structure didn't change, it will install just fine without any work.

[-] Genericusername@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I am quite comfortable finding my way around ArchLinux, and recently decided to give Gentoo a try. I didn't expect it to be that much harder but all the cflags, emerge, conflicts and updates feels like black magic. I guess that if you know your way around Gentoo, reverse-engineering a deb file is not a real challenge. However I'm assuming that most Linux users would hope for a less involved solution.

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds really cool.

[-] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You could check out NixOS :)

[-] Lime66@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Incredibly old and likely no longer updated packages
  • the devs are expected to backport their security fixes to these packages, which can create an outrageous amount of work

I don't understand why would people not be on debian does not compute

I don't understand why someone would want to be on Debian, what actual advantage does it have.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

Stability, slow changes, predictable, strong history, lots of distributions are based on it, the list goes on and on. I don't use it but it's kinda stupid to question it's relevant qualities considering how much it's brought to the Linux community.

[-] puppy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Also don't forget that Debian is completely community driven, unlike Redhat's distros which face some controversy.

[-] Lime66@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Lots of distros are based on Ubuntu, does that make Ubuntu an amazing distro?

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

They are based on Debian then, not Ubuntu. They are just reworked.

[-] Lime66@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

They are based on both in that case

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Is it using APT? If so, guess what....

[-] molochthagod@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Relax, guys, Debian and not Debian both have their pros and cons. The variety of options is what's so beautiful about Linux.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

For the .deb packages, obviously.

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