They have their own debs to worry about :-)
It's nice to have the debs available, though. It makes it easy to
reinstall packages if you wind up uninstalling for some reason, and
decide later that you want them. Also, in the event of an
incompatibility, you have an archive of an older version of
As I like to install from source I do a lot of compiling.
Probably my knowledge is not enough to become a maintainer
of a package.
But I wonder: all this (CPU-)time to generate a .deb
archive just for myself? Can the maintainers use these one
way or another?
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carmee
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