On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Joerg Jung <mail_AT_umaxx.net> wrote:
>> >You're right in that package maintainers can't tell where the fixes
>> >and new features are coming in, they'll not introduce their own
>> >releases.
>
> Right, you disproved your own sentence above.
>
No need to get nitpicking, I saw and still see the counterargument
beneath overweighing the one in favor.
>> > in that configuration
>> > changes require recompiling of the respective binary.
>
> There are package managers which allow very easy re-compiling of
> packages with own patch-sets, especially due to projects like suckless.
> Several people, still prefer re-compiling of packages based on the given
> releases. Because from sysadmin point of view, packages are always
> wanted and preferred over random source builds.
>
From the average suckless user's view, knowing what source is compiled
and what config included is always wanted and preferred over other
people's builds.
>> >Releases hence make sense for software that fits everyone's needs with
>> >their configuration files, which is untrue either for most suckless
>> >projects.
>
> Releases make sense for several reasons, even for suckless projects and
> and adding a tag is not hard, right?
>
I'm not going to tell other people what to do. Good luck.
cheers!
mar77i.
Received on Mon Jun 01 2015 - 17:14:17 CEST
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