• mlg@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Dependencies:

    Old ass library version from 2004

    apt/dnf/pacman: package not found

    library package was last available 15 years ago before it was dropped to move to the next legacy version

    App package was available right up until last year until it was dropped for development inactivity

    Absolutely no one has a compiled version of old ass library

    Attempting to compile old ass library results in 30 other old ass package dependencies

    How in the actual world was the maintainer compiling this up to last year

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    yay <package name>

    There is a 99% chance it’s in there, and there is an 80% chance it uses the latest version/git HEAD

  • Pippipartner@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    Ah the Linux help desk where you get helpful directions like “You have a problem with your dual monitor setup in your naively installed Ubuntu setup? Have you considered installing a rust micro kernel from an abandoned GitHub repo? After cherry picking some patches from a mailinglist? Also boon plep Ubuntu looser.”

  • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Why even use releases? Everyone can build everything for themselves. ‘Normal Users’ are just lazy, everyone wants to know how every piece of software is built for their system, it’s not like they have other stuff to do.

    • Maki@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      I thought that was what Gentoo was doing, but they have far more binary packages nowadays than I thought they’d ever get.