3 Feb
2020
3 Feb
'20
2:24 p.m.
On Mon, 2020-02-03 at 14:18 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
On the other hand, install something like Gem with apt is trivial and reliable.
I meant: While maintaining the packages is a lot of work for the package maintainers, installing something complex as Gem is very easy for the end-user. As IOhannes said: apt is much more capable, so use that, if it is an option.
Deken, though not as capable as apt, enabled many people to package and distribute their externals in an easy and concise way, which works well enough for a lot of externals.
Roman