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Free is too expensive (Economist)Free is too expensive (Economist)Posted Apr 2, 2012 13:27 UTC (Mon) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by rqosa Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)
Having RPM spec files available for such stuff would be easy (for Fedora) and many source packages include the build machinery for Debian, but nobody has stepped up do organize "third party" repositories of said stuff. I did rebuild some packages for new versions (or local configurations) on Fedora and CentOS semi-routinely, but the need diminished over time due to better integration and more agressive upstream tracking. Perhaps the non-existence of such repositories for other distributions is due to their users not indulging in routine wholesale recompilation, prefering a uniform, vetted set of packages instead...
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