Re: The problem with not owning the software

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 02:10:21 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 00:12:18 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
 

More to illustrate that building from source was possible.

 
I never said it wasn’t, just that it doesn’t scale well without a proper
package manager to help with the dependencies -- something that macOS
lacks.
 

How complex were those builds you managed? Does each download include
all its dependencies?

 
Fairly simple to moderately complex with internal and external
dependencies, but that was a while back.

 
How did you handle getting hold of the dependencies for each build?

Tarball Hell.  I haven't played that game in a long time thankfully.
Usually 'apt install xxxxx' pulls what you need from the repositories
rather than having to build every dependency back to when the dinosaurs
roamed the earth.