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1. jacque+(OP)[view] [source] 2024-01-22 22:39:51
Especially for user facing (so, UI based) software it definitely isn't as easy as .configure && make && make install for a very large number of packets.

This QT version or that? Hunt down some weird dependency. Find that that dependency clashes with a more recent version, but you can't downgrade. Oh, oops your app depends on a quirk in glibc v x but your system only has v y so now you have to figure out how to run two different glibc's without conflicting with each other, and better not make a mistake during that installation or your system may never boot again.

Complex software can be quite a pain to build properly, more-so if you want to target multiple different architectures or operating systems.

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