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Thoughts on makedeb, Debian's unofficial makepkg clone that comes with its own version of the AUR as well? (docs.makedeb.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Saw the post here regarding CentOS's off-springs and a couple of people brought up the excellent point of: why play with fire? Let's just stick to Debian.

The only disadvantage I currently see is the outdated packages, and I'm curious whether makedeb solves them. Does anyone here use it regularly? How stable and comfortable is it? Did you write your own PKGBUILDs?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, this is about 90% less stupid than pacstall (a bunch of scripts in a trench coat that plaster files around your fs) but it still kinda misses the point of Debian. Debian's killer feature isn't the package format as much as the curation, support and maintenance of the software in the Debian repos done by the community. I guess there is a use case for a grab bag of "other things" but there's some significant downside potential if not used carefully.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What do you mean by "plastering files around your fs"?