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Then you can be the one who'll package it for your distro.

• _sinelaw_ 1mo ago
  You still need the distro maintainers to cooperate. And the packaging itself can be highly involved (as in the case of rust dependencies on Debian)
  • seba_dos1 1mo ago
    Of course you do, that's where the value comes from after all.
• AndrewDucker 1mo ago
  Sorry, I don't have those skills, or any spare time. And if you want a system whereby software only gets made available if distro-providers care enough, then that's fine. But you're putting a filter between the software producer and non-technical users, and you should be aware that this is a choice you're making.
  • seba_dos1 1mo ago
    It has worked for decades and many thousands of packages just fine. If nobody cares enough to make the application available, perhaps it just shouldn't be there.
    • zbentley 1mo ago
      > It has worked for decades and many thousands of packages just fine And yet insane quantities of programs used by millions are only available via raw .deb file downloads, or random alternative PPAs, or via programming language package managers. The distro maintainer system is impressive, and I’m thankful for it. But saying “it has worked for lots of packages” says nothing about the many it has not worked for.