DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml
on 10 Dec 20:16
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Cool.
trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 10 Dec 21:20
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Arch really does have the most straightforward packaging system. Can you write a Bash script? Cool. You can package your application for Arch very easily.
Yeah, while lots of people have plenty of other reasons for using Arch. The packaging system is my personal favorite. I have made packages for deb and rpm based systems before, but Arch is just so dead simple with little scripts preinstalled to make it even easier.
Absolutely agree, the wholeapt-get upgrade (or however, I always messed it up!) was annoying to me, and I switched to an arch distro (Endeavour) and I’m super happy with it. It’s my only machine and it is awesome
Unfortunately, from my testing back when I used Arch, a lot of packages in the AUR didn’t meet packaging guidelines, so while quickly writing a PKGBUILD is easy, writing it correctly requires a bit more effort, especially regarding the dependencies. IIRC namcap is often enough, but ideally packages should be built in clean chroots as well to make sure they build everywhere
Soft wrapping plain-text is surprisingly hard to get right. It’s better to just hard wrap your text when writing an email. Any half-decent text editor/mail client has a feature to automatically hard-wrap a paragraph for you for convenience.
Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
on 11 Dec 06:58
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David might be using git’s send email, which he likely has set up to have a max line length of about 80, because that’s what the kernel developers require.
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Cool.
Arch really does have the most straightforward packaging system. Can you write a Bash script? Cool. You can package your application for Arch very easily.
Yeah, while lots of people have plenty of other reasons for using Arch. The packaging system is my personal favorite. I have made packages for deb and rpm based systems before, but Arch is just so dead simple with little scripts preinstalled to make it even easier.
Can AUR be used by other distros like Debian or fedora?
Unfortunately, no, but you can get kind of close for Debian distros with LURE.
EDIT: Apparently LURE is supposed to be distro-agnostic, so it’d probably work for EL too.
Don't the file structure guidelines differ across distros?
Yeah. I haven’t looked at the code that closely, but it looks like they account for various differences between distros.
Technically yes, but practically no. For the same reasons that manjaro might struggle with the aur even though it is technically arch based.
Absolutely agree, the whole
apt-get upgrade(or however, I always messed it up!) was annoying to me, and I switched to an arch distro (Endeavour) and I’m super happy with it. It’s my only machine and it is awesomeYou don’t need to type apt-get, you can just do
apt upgrade.Unfortunately, from my testing back when I used Arch, a lot of packages in the AUR didn’t meet packaging guidelines, so while quickly writing a PKGBUILD is easy, writing it correctly requires a bit more effort, especially regarding the dependencies. IIRC
namcapis often enough, but ideally packages should be built in clean chroots as well to make sure they build everywhereLol, the hardcoded linebrakes, haven’t seen that for a while, what a glorious mess.
That’s typical for plain-text email which this is.
Is it? What email client can’t do any kind of soft word-wrapping?
Soft wrapping plain-text is surprisingly hard to get right. It’s better to just hard wrap your text when writing an email. Any half-decent text editor/mail client has a feature to automatically hard-wrap a paragraph for you for convenience.
David might be using git’s send email, which he likely has set up to have a max line length of about 80, because that’s what the kernel developers require.