<cr1901_modern>
So what fun filled Linux woes are you dealing with today?
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<whitequark>
nothing
<whitequark>
this is rather a reflection on past interactions
<cr1901_modern>
From what I can gather, the various Linux distros' incompatibilities are the culprit?
<whitequark>
actually, no, just the fact that there's a lot of them and they all have slightly different packaging
<whitequark>
ubuntu alone is a nightmare
<whitequark>
I have no desire to provide binary builds for Linuxes and in fact I don't anymore
<cr1901_modern>
dpkg is absolutely awful
<whitequark>
dpkg ?
<whitequark>
no, I have no problems with dpkg
<whitequark>
I have a problem with having to provide a combinatorial explosion of binary builds, and setting up infrastructure to do them
<cr1901_modern>
Well, that's what Ubuntu uses (one of the prereqs to uploading your package to a repo anyway), and the last time I tried making a package for Ubuntu, I looked at the steps and said "forget it, build from src is fine"
<whitequark>
it's really not very hard to make a dpkg package
<cr1901_modern>
Maybe I was having a bad day/my experience not typical. If someone offered to maintain a binary package, would you accept that?
<whitequark>
sure, there are PPAs of SolveSpace
<cr1901_modern>
It shifts the responsibility where all the building is done to multiple people, but I guess that's fairly low overhead