• CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
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      7 hours ago

      OK, apologies, I’ll stop taking weird.

      The developer is only supposed to share his code. It’s the distro’s responsibility to provide binary build of famous programs so that most users don’t have to compile. When they don’t, it’s inevitable that individual users have to build it themselves. This has been the norm for decades.

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        6 hours ago

        The distro does provide it, but I wouldn’t say they are responsible for it, unless you are paying them. Otherwise that sounds like entitlement.

        As a consumer sometimes you just have to install from source. Not everything is always in apt.