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   Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 05:53:33 JST Chris Siebenmann

   Hot take: packaging open source software is actual work (and is sometimes what we demurely call 'non-trivial' in this field). I say this as a sysadmin who has sometimes had to deal with the results of not packaging software and then not keeping up with the state of the software we didn't package but installed anyway.

   (Sure, sometimes you get lucky and the packaging instructions are easy to write (Debian rules, RPM specfiles, whatever Arch uses, etc). And sometimes they aren't.)

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 28-Aug-2023 05:57:19 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @cks It's quite why I'm glad to see some packaging-focused positions, sometimes called "system integration" which isn't that far off because so much of packaging work involves getting things up to shape either so they can actually consistently build, or so they actually work on modern systems.