Carl George :fedora: :centos: on Nostr: These are use cases that are served by distro packaging. There is absolutely nothing ...

These are use cases that are served by distro packaging. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having both this method and the direct download single binary method. I would also argue that being present in disto default repos is a huge boon for discovery and adoption.

When software has an absurd number of build-time dependencies, it has no effect on the single binary download folks, but is actively harmful to the distro package folks.