All other things being clear... 2018-07-22 20:30 GMT+02:00 Elana Hashman <ehash...@debian.org>: > > TLDR; the pratical solution is to promote compilation of addons - which is >> *straightforward* on debian/ubuntu/fedora and derivatives >> (you just need to explain which development packages must be installed). >> > > This is fair suggestion, but I think that there is significantly more lift > to put this into motion. To accomplish this, I believe we'd have to go > through the following steps: > > 1) Convince developers (upstream or downstream) to package their native > dependencies for Debian > 2) Sponsor native dep uploads to Debian > 3) Convince end users to install and depend on the version in Debian > > 3) is going to be tough, because many folks who use Debian for development > do not necessarily target a Debian production environment. >
You lost me a little here. >From what i understand, there are only two general solutions: 1.a build from source at install time 1.b build from source in an OS package (which is later distributed as binary, or not) 2. distribute a contained (be it statically compiled or smarter solutions like flatpak), heavy, blob In-between will break at some point, in unpredictable ways... Will it not ? Jérémy