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i hate that it's very often like this (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by nekothegamer to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That sounds really cool.