More control over binary builds

Posted Mar 16, 2021 18:07 UTC (Tue) by immibis (subscriber, #105511)
In reply to: More control over binary builds by epa
Parent article: Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

You would think so, but the binary build has the same problem from the other end: the end user can't tweak the software, even if they want to!

And while Microsoft has a good record with backward compatibility, it's not 100% - if they change the system *anyway*, the end user (no matter how technical) often has little ability to diagnose or fix the problem. If Linux followed the Microsoft model, the Raspberry Pi simply wouldn't exist.

More control over binary builds

Posted Mar 20, 2021 8:53 UTC (Sat) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

I am not saying the binary should be the only thing that exists, rather that the 99% of users who don't want local changes can download a known build. Big projects like Mozilla and Libreoffice follow this model, except where they are packaged by Linux distributions.