• breakingcups@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The headache comes up when multiple third party repositories start conflicting with each other

    Which is traditionally why you needed the distro to package your software…

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      4 months ago

      Depends on if you stick to distro provided dependencies, then you are generally good, unless a third party repo decided to supersede that dependency.

      I have spent a long time carefully packaging as a third party repository and it’s generally doable. Just sometimes another repository isn’t as careful and blows away the distribution provided libraries.