• Bjarne@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    iit: nerds unable to comprehend that building a piece of software from source in not something every person can do.

    EDIT: or doesn’t want to do

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      2 months ago

      iit: nerds unable to comprehend that building a piece of software from source in not something every person can do

      huh? Using package managers almost never involves compiling. It’s there as a capability, but the point is to distribute pre-compiled packages and skip that step in the vast majority of cases.