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building this for gentoo right now. It's pretty funny (positive) that you don't include .deb or .rpm packages. This isn't for any of them.



> It's pretty funny (positive) that you don't include .deb or .rpm packages. This isn't for any of them.

Is it particularly common for projects to provide .deb or .rpm packages? Given the dependency hell of out-of-repo packages, I've found it's much easier to simply:

    ./configure; make; sudo checkinstall


maybe not on github, but usually on their websites, a project will provide packages. Sometimes, these are donated by users. Often, they're provided by the developers themselves.

The lack of deb/rpm is refreshing.




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