Post #2135488
2026-05-07 04:55 UTC
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza oh I get it. Before I started offering packages and all that I'd just build things and make a package manually if I needed one. It wasn't until I started sharing things that I decided I should do it the "right" way, and tbh I kinda don't like it, it's less fun than stitching things together manually like a cave-man. But Slackers all have the same POV, "Show me the SlackBuild" is how they roll, but maintaining a repo with compat for current, now that's my fringe case-study lol
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@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza 2026-05-07 05:57
@jloc0@mastodon.sdf.org Yes, and in this particular case there's nothing in particular to Slackbuild 😂 Just wrappers around deb's or rpm's. Can imagine the fun when truly compiling from source, but I only do that with dwm. Period 😝
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@gwenhael@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-07 05:54
@jloc0 @thesaigoneer What? No! My slackbuilds exist because I don't want to reinvent things constantly. They store the knowledge of how to build that package so I don't have to remember it. This is why mine are as automated as possible, most will pull the code, find the version alone. Then on top I have a meta-script I run every day that will automatically build and upgrade all installed packages. Think once, run many.