• CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
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      11 hours ago

      Then why do you need cargo in the first place, sir? You install a program written i Rust just as if it isn’t. When you apt install xzy, you don’t even know what language is used to program it.

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              3 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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                2 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.

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            3 hours ago

            I don’t think it is the distro’s responsibility or the developer’s responsibility. I think it is up to a volunteer whether they package it for the distro, or up to you as the consumer to install it on your own, or find a distro with more packages.