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  • trevorEnglish
    19·
    26 days ago

    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.

    • D_Air1@lemmy.ml
      11·
      26 days ago

      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.

      • Classy@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        25 days ago

        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

        • D_Air1@lemmy.ml
          3·
          25 days ago

          Technically yes, but practically no. For the same reasons that manjaro might struggle with the aur even though it is technically arch based.

        • trevorEnglish
          2·
          26 days ago

          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.

            • trevorEnglish
              2·
              24 days ago

              Yeah. I haven’t looked at the code that closely, but it looks like they account for various differences between distros.

    • Laser@feddit.org
      7·
      25 days ago

      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

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        26 days ago

        Is it? What email client can’t do any kind of soft word-wrapping?

        • Atemu@lemmy.ml
          1·
          23 days ago

          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
      3·
      26 days ago

      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.