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1 year agoHosting a mail server is really easy. Making sure Hotmail, Gmail and others accept your emails is a nightmare.
I don’t host my own email, I just delegate my email management to a small provider.
Hosting a mail server is really easy. Making sure Hotmail, Gmail and others accept your emails is a nightmare.
I don’t host my own email, I just delegate my email management to a small provider.
Call me an old man. But I like when things are stable. I don’t like starting my computer, and the software was updated to a new version, and some features disappeared or changed in behavior. This is why I hate the web where people update software right under my nose! With no control from my side.
Have ever checked if you checked how maintained are the dependencies/libraries of your favorite software? It’s a nightmare as well. The distro is not making anything worse.
First, the work is not often duplicated. The first maintainer to package will usually upstream patches which make packaging easy. Packagers will look how other distros packagers packaged the app they’re trying to package.
Also the duplication only happen a few time. Ubuntu just pulled almost all of their packages from Debian Sid. Same with RHEL/CentOS and Fedora. And so on, and so on
Also you’re overestimating how hard packaging is, most of the time, it’s scripted. (golang modules in debian, are imported in an almost fully automated way)
You know what distros bring?