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Re:Bash as a Service by oofabz on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @07:51PM (#3700935)
Why would you want to use a remote service instead of just installing the software on your local machine? Most software is quite small and it would be much more reliable this way as it wouldn't rely on a network connection to a second machine.

Seriously why would you not want to install pygmentize? It's Python, so it runs everywhere. The Debian package is 332 kB, so it's not wasting disk space. What possible motivation do you have to pay someone a fee to run it on their computer instead?

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Re:Bash as a Service by emmelaich on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @09:14PM (#3701277)
You cannot, in general, easily install software on your machine. That is, I can find quite a few examples for which a particular version or some particular software won't install on your particular machine/OS combination.
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Re:Bash as a Service by icebraining on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @06:45AM (#3702581)
Remember we're talking about CLI software. While I don't doubt you can find some examples of CLI programs that are hard to install on Debian, I doubt they're nearly enough to justify something like this.

Even if it's not packaged, 'tar xf file.tar && ./configure && make && checkinstall' doesn't require any particular effort to someone used to the shell, and you only have to do it once for each program.

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