On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Joerg Jung <[email protected]> wrote: >> >You're right in that package maintainers can't tell where the fixes >> >and new features are coming in, they'll not introduce their own >> >releases. > > Right, you disproved your own sentence above. >
No need to get nitpicking, I saw and still see the counterargument beneath overweighing the one in favor. >> > in that configuration >> > changes require recompiling of the respective binary. > > There are package managers which allow very easy re-compiling of > packages with own patch-sets, especially due to projects like suckless. > Several people, still prefer re-compiling of packages based on the given > releases. Because from sysadmin point of view, packages are always > wanted and preferred over random source builds. > >From the average suckless user's view, knowing what source is compiled and what config included is always wanted and preferred over other people's builds. >> >Releases hence make sense for software that fits everyone's needs with >> >their configuration files, which is untrue either for most suckless >> >projects. > > Releases make sense for several reasons, even for suckless projects and > and adding a tag is not hard, right? > I'm not going to tell other people what to do. Good luck. cheers! mar77i.
