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Re:An annoyance with Debian postinstall scripts during packa... by kevin_thibedeau on Monday January 10, 2022 @02:21AM (#29871585)
If you want software outside the official repo that isn't self contained you should use a container or build it yourself and install into the /usr/local tree. Don't cross the streams.
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Re:An annoyance with Debian postinstall scripts during packa... by jcelerier on Monday January 10, 2022 @03:04AM (#29871816)
It works so much better with archlinux than with Debian though
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Re:An annoyance with Debian postinstall scripts during packa... by selfhoster11 on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:39AM (#29875446)
Rebuilding an official or unofficial package on Arch is so refreshingly simple. On Debian or Ubuntu, it seems significantly harder.

Arch is basically superior to Gentoo for me in that respect. Things are mostly binary, except when I choose to build from source. For someone who doesn't want to tweak compile-time flags, it's a good distro.

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