While I agree that developers (like myself) are not necessarily experts at packaging stuff, to conclude that it's fine that a developer provides a flatpak is promoting shitty software.
Whether a software should run in a jail, or within user space is a decision that - for most use cases - should be made by the user.
There is absolutely no reason not to provide software as a tar.gz source code archive with a proper makefile & documentation of dependencies - or automake configuration if that's preferred.
From that kind of delivery, any package maintainer can easily build a distro-package.
Now Debian insists we add the GPG keys manually. Like cavemen.)
Erm. Would you rather have debian auto-trust a bunch of third party people? It's up to the user to decide whose keys they want on their system and whose packages they would accept if signed by what key.
kate editor would like to have a word... They did my lady kate dirty with the latest updates :( The top level File menu was so much better and now I don't know where to find the configuration to get that back, and have on my work computer a stupid single button in the top right corner which opens the "menu bar", except vertically..
Makefiles/automake isn’t a reasonable expectation these days, with a plethora of languages and build toolchains, but good, clear instructions are definitely something to include.
As for the Makefiles, I meant that for whatever build toolchain the project uses - because the rules to build a project are an essential part of the project, linking the source code into a working library or executable. Whether it is cmake, or gnu make, or whatever else there is - that's not so important as long as those build toolchains are available cross platforms.
I think what is really missing in the open source world is a distribution-agnostic standard how to describe application dependencies so that package maintainers can auto-generate distro-packages with the distribution-specific dependencies based on that "dependencies" file.
Similar to debian dependencies Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 10.2.1)
but in a way that identifies code modules, not packages, so that distributions that package software together differently will still be able to identy findPackageFor( dependency )
I would really like to add this kind of info to my projects and have a tool that can auto-build a repo-package from those.
and a giant "fuck you" to Lennart Poettering for that. Not for creating an init system option - but for lobbying it into major distributions, instead of letting the users decide what they prefer. May he forever stub his toes on furniture.
I'm not blindly hating. I despise the asshole responsible for the choice being taken away from me for many major distros and I wish him the plague for his manipulative approach in getting there.
People who lobby with decision makers at major distributions for their software to be made the de-facto standard, instead of leaving it to the userbase, have a deeply anti-democratic mindset, and that makes them assholes.
I just had a light bulb moment as to what it is that annoys me about a large portion of US-american men: all the "dudes" temper & behaviour is adolescent - as if they never made it past puberty. Which perfectly fits the sexualized language being funny to those guys.
Been using debian for more than a decade and "it just works" has become truer every year. It's a good distro, if you have no principle objections against systemd (which I do, but am too lazy to do anything about).
The one thing I am not happy about: Audio drivers on a Desktop computer
works out of the box, but then messes up when selecting input devices from:
line in
headphones in
USB camera microphone
Audio in "sinks" - I believe those are channels allowing for active noise cancelling / preventing Audio feedback loops
I had a whole lot of trouble with pulseaudio selecting the correct source when trying to use my mic in the browser.
On a Laptop, I've never experienced such issues, as all devices are integrated (apart from the headphones jack, I guess).
Just when I got familiar enough with pulseaudio, they replaced it with "pipewire", which fucked up output devices:
works on boot
when I plug in headphones: it messes up the Audio output to HDMI and I have to manually re-select (on desktop environment) the headphones
when I then touch the volume control (GUI), the output goes silent again and I have to select the "Port" headphones for the "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo" under "Output Devices"
drives me crazy since the last update - but it's only an issue when using headphones, so for now I am living with it.
Dieser miese Haufen kleinhirniger Drecksnazis - ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen will. Wie dummbratzig kann man eigentlich sein, ohne das Atmen zu vergessen?
FCK AFD. Und das ganze "konservative" Dreckspack mit seinem rassistischen Pfeifenblasen gleich mit - ja, auch die rote Sahra.
Was die Aussage aber auch nicht bestätigt. Tipps lesen != Manipulation erfolgt. Die CDU kann einfach nicht damit umgehen, dass die Abstimmung nicht das erwartete Ergebnis hatte.
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