On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:40:25 +0100 "Dicebot" <m.stras...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Packaging is best done (and should be) by OS package manager, not > hundreds of languages-specific managers. Good language package > manager in my opinion is just an information source for OS > package builders.
I'm not real big on the idea of OS package managers. Not when Unix is in the picture anyway. I'm getting really fed up with software that has a "download / install" webpage populated with totally different instructions for an endless, yet always incomplete, list of Linux variants. And *maybe* BSD. And then on top of that, the poor *project* maintainers have to maintain all of that distro-specific cruft. Unless they're lucky and the project is big enough that the ditro maintainers are willing to waste *their* time converting the package into something that only works on their own distro. I believe I can sum up my thoughts with: "Fuck that shit."