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I don't like "flat-out refuse". I don't "refuse" to package my apps for every distro any more than I "refuse" to do my neighbour's gardening.

I tried packaging for Debian once and after 2 days I have up -- I have neither the time or patience to do work for distros I don't use for free.



Yeah, there's more than a whiff of entitlement to that phrasing.

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend looking at fpm for packaging. Unless you're doing something weird or need an obscure format, it is the tool you want.

https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm


> Yeah, there's more than a whiff of entitlement to that phrasing.

I have been thinking about that. I disagree. It's always nitpicking o'clock on HN and I specifically wrote "Some" and specifically wrote in brackets that I wasn't debating if it's either right or wrong. I agree that it should have been worded differently but the facts remains and that doesn't follow that there's “more than a whiff of entitlement“.


I'm not clear what you mean then, to be honest. Anyone who isn't packaging their software is, effectively, flat-out refusing to package it. I don't really see how I, or anyone else, could "more" flat-out refuse.


There's a spectrum. Some don't care, some refuse and some flat-out refuse. I dislike being accused of entitlement because I point that out.


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Read it again. I'm agreeing with the parent.


Ugh, apologies.




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