• trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 days ago

    Arch really does have the most straightforward packaging system. Can you write a Bash script? Cool. You can package your application for Arch very easily.

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      21 days ago

      Unfortunately, from my testing back when I used Arch, a lot of packages in the AUR didn’t meet packaging guidelines, so while quickly writing a PKGBUILD is easy, writing it correctly requires a bit more effort, especially regarding the dependencies. IIRC namcap is often enough, but ideally packages should be built in clean chroots as well to make sure they build everywhere

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      22 days ago

      Yeah, while lots of people have plenty of other reasons for using Arch. The packaging system is my personal favorite. I have made packages for deb and rpm based systems before, but Arch is just so dead simple with little scripts preinstalled to make it even easier.

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        21 days ago

        Is it? What email client can’t do any kind of soft word-wrapping?