alt Hacker News> 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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PhilipRoman • last Monday at 11:14 AM
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.
And then there's Gentoo just smuggly accepting fate and always rebuilding everything rather than trying to force compatibility with libraries.