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Courtès: What's in a package

Posted Sep 24, 2021 2:47 UTC (Fri) by JanC_ (subscriber, #34940)
In reply to: Courtès: What's in a package by swilmet
Parent article: Courtès: What's in a package

But if you fork something, why not maintain the fork separately, probably using a different name, so that it can also be used (and maintained) by others who disagree?

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Courtès: What's in a package

Posted Sep 24, 2021 12:01 UTC (Fri) by swilmet (guest, #98424) [Link]

Sometimes it's just picking up an older tarball and building it, other times it's creating a small branch in git with a few commits.

And it's definitely possible to make the "light fork" parallel-installable with the main, upstream version, so that Linux distros can install both, see for example:
https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/guidelines/main...
(this is used for instance for the different major versions of GTK, they can co-exist on the same prefix).