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> No consensus on how to package. Bob wants a .deb,

Bob wants a deb. I give him a deb. Bob is not happy because I compiled the software with an incompatible glibc. I deploy a webapp for Bob. Alice gets to use it too.

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And then there's Gentoo just smuggly accepting fate and always rebuilding everything rather than trying to force compatibility with libraries.

Honestly it really has been nice down here in Gentoo, now they have bin packages it even use it on laptops.

I even use flatpaks for the stuff I don't want to build, everything just works most of the time.

there are only two versions of libc mine and the one you brought with you.

This kinda sounds like hell for low memory machines. RIP shared memory optimizations.

Bob wants a deb. I tell him to pound sand and give him a statically linked executable and pray that DNS works. If the software is still relevant in five years, some Debian maintainer will take an ancient version, convert it to use shared libraries, apply a dozen patches and give a .deb to Bob.

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