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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by SSLy on Friday February 24, 2023 @04:09AM (#34922571)
>Which part of Arch's design prevents the issue described in the grandparent post?

As a former long-time Arch user, you're correct. It's "just" a distro not unlike the biggest one. The reason Arch repos are fairly well updated and big is the relatively easy to understand PKGBUILD format and the tooling around it, which lessens friction on package management.

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Re:KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store fo... by majewsky on Friday February 24, 2023 @07:52AM (#34923960)
The impact of having frictionless package building cannot be understated. I'm publishing Arch Linux packages for all my applications because it takes just a few minutes to write up a PKGBUILD. Then one time, I tried providing a Debian package as well, but I gave up after several hours of trying to get through all the bureaucracy of the tooling.
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