On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Pierre-Elliott Bécue <be...@crans.org> wrote: > Le lundi 04 juin 2018 à 12:54:32+0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : >> >> In practice, I have found that it is much easier to deploy a >> production service directly from its git tree. This makes it much >> easier to make changes. > > I've always found otherwise, ie that packaged stuff makes the > administrator of a service spare a lot of time. > > I wonder then, if a lot of people prefer deploy a service from > upstream's git repo/cookbooks, what is the purpose of packaging? Who > would benefit from it and who should use package-distros?
In this case, isn't it because the service is being installed as and run by user "git"?