You don’t need the distro to package your sodtware through their package management systems though. Apt and dnf repositories are extensible, anyone can publish. If you go to copr or ppa you can have a little extra help too, without distro maintainers.
The headache comes up when multiple third party repositories start conflicting with each other when you add enough of them, despite they’re best efforts. This scenario starts needing flatpack, which can, for example concurrently provide multiple distinct library versions installed that traditionally would conflict with each other. This doesn’t mean application has to bundle the dependency, that dependency can still be external to the package and independently updated, it just means conflicts can be gracefully handled.
Depends on if you stick to distro provided dependencies, then you are generally good, unless a third party repo decided to supersede that dependency.
I have spent a long time carefully packaging as a third party repository and it’s generally doable. Just sometimes another repository isn’t as careful and blows away the distribution provided libraries.
Well that makes total sense to me. I thought it was well known that the speed of light as measured in metric units is actually determined by the placement of the pyramid, not the other way around.
I like the aur too but a proprietary app that isn’t updated to support newer dependencies, it most likely won’t run anyway. At that point it’s either broken app, broken system, or you don’t have anything else installed using that library(yet).
Sounds neat! Don’t really care much for messing with config files for hours. This is from someone who uses arch on all his systems. I’ve been in config hell for a while, I use kde now.
Not great to laugh at the mess Linux is in, due to people paddling in different, incompatible, directions. Users can’t choose the package format. They have to take what they are given. Good or bad. I don’t care which format. As long as it works. But this is a good way to scare more people off of Linux.
laughs at people scared of choice and “mess” . . .
If they’re switcing to linux they should first come to know about open source forking around - arguably - one of the most important features of the whole thing.
If they don’t wan’t that choice and all that inevitable open source forkery, they probably should go for an apple mac or windows or something like that. And maybe they will have to pay for some software for the privilege because it takes work to do those things. They can of course try plain old ubuntu and do stuff the way canonical wants, that removes quite a bit of choice if it is otherwise too terrifying for them.
But in general, I don’t think its a good idea to to try to sell pig-carcasses to vegans by painting them the colours of broccoli.
Oh yeah they definitely have uses, but there’s a real tendency for people to go a bit crazy with them. Complex regexen aren’t exactly readable, there’s all kinds of fun performance gotchas, there’s sometimes other tools/algorithms that are more suitable for the task, and sometimes people try to use them to eg. parse HTML because they don’t know that it is literally impossible to use regular expressions to parse languages that aren’t regular
It’s entirely possible to parse HTML in PCRE. You shouldn’t, but it is possible. The language stopped being strictly regular a long time ago and is entirely capable of doing it.
Oh yeah, extensions which make them non-regular definitely can make it possible, but just because it’s now somewhat possible with some regex engines doesn’t mean it’s a good idea
I learned Regex once and now it just works. Only problem for me is using MacOS so the Regex flavors aren’t consistent. But once I sort that, it’s smooth sailing.
A "debtor" is a company or person who owes money. I would assume that by "corporation," they mean "the 'corporation' which is both you and not you." So let's call that "Someone who owes money."
A "creditor" is a company or person to whom money is owed.
I believe that "individual agent" is referring back to the "person," while the "straw man" is the imaginary magical --
I read it that they’re trying to say: A company you owe money to won’t be able to claim that debt from you, unless you issue them some sort of notice to allow that. And then that company somehow owes something back to you, plus interest.
But I also assumed they’re misusing the terms creditor and debtor.
Saddest part of sovcitizenry is it usually starts when someone is in a legal and/or financial bind and meet a grifter who tells them there’s a secret second system that will make their problems go away if they just say the right magic words (which is partially true. In most legal and financial challenges you have routes you can take to get out of them with the least amount of pain, and both mean sending the right paperwork to the right person at the right time, and usually including the right payments as well) but these grifters cause the poor souls to dig themselves in deeper so that they end up in a mountain of increasingly difficult to manage trouble whereas they previously just had a molehill that they needed someone to help them find the right solution to manage
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