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"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

Posted Aug 2, 2022 12:10 UTC (Tue) by immibis (guest, #105511)
In reply to: "Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers by Cyberax
Parent article: "Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

You might be surprised how often packages WILL work on the wrong distribution. Occasionally I unpack debs on Gentoo, and they work.

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"Critical" projects and volunteer maintainers

Posted Aug 14, 2022 12:11 UTC (Sun) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

One of Gentoo's worst-documented features is that it can *output* binary packages (default is tarballs, but it also does RPM). It's an afterthought, not an OBS alternative, but it's sometimes a lifesaver to have.


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