Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > On 2021-05-19 2:01 p.m., Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 01:29:44PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > > wrote: > >> Now if what you are telling me is : > >> That all software that I may run on my Linux box that are not inside the > >> Debian repository will make my system a "frankendebian" and will entitle > >> myself to be called off-topic and not worth having my message read, then > >> honestly, I'll simply stop reading mailing list and go on my own. > > > > First of all, this is exactly the kind of attitude I was talking about, > > which we see *EXTREMELY FREQUENTLY* from Kali users especially. If you > > behave like this on any of the Debian IRC channels, you will get no help. > I am not a Kali user. > > > > > Second, no, not all third-party software makes your system unsupportable. > > But *packages* that are installed from other distributions most certainly > > do. > > > > Why would a package I get from a git repository be supportable but a > package I save some packaging time and get from another source (Kali, > Ubuntu for example) would become unsupportable ?
Ahem. Installing a software thingy in /opt or /usr/local or such limits the damage to "it doesn't work, but the system as a whole works otherwise". Adding a package repository or installing a random .deb file off the Internet can change arbitrary things in your system, and stuff that you didn't think you were changing can suddenly stop working. That's extremely difficult to debug. > So you are telling me that support stop as soon I build myself a custom > package but if I build software and put it outside the packaging system, > it's supportable ? Oh, no, no no no. There is no support for anything! But all of us volunteers are willing to help out, from each according to their abilities, to each according to the random factors of the universe. > And if I build myself a package, for example I packaged all my roms used > for gaming into a deb file, this way it's easy to install and I use a > repository on my local network. By doing it this way, my gf who already > does her updates can also update the pack of roms I got. > So this is bad and make me loose community support ? No, because see above: there's no support. The question is, what can you do to maximize the chances of someone helping you? > I feel like people just feel good telling others "You are wrong" so they > can feel "right". In this case, you are mostly wrong. People are telling you that you're doing it the wrong way because their experience (and mine) is that they have spent far too much of their own time trying to debug problems that they cannot possibly reproduce, because you have a version of libinsidious that nobody else has. -dsr-
