Re: Open Source does not mean easily re-compile-able

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:27:07 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

Personally I don't think that package managers contribute a lot since
for ordinary users it's the same whether the package managers install a
binary package or a source that is compiled under the hood.

Package managers contribute a lot to both tasks. On Linux, there is no
“development environment” versus “user environment”. The same packaging
tools work with both source code and built binaries.

The difference is that source package needs a development
environment (compiler, etc.) that "ordinary users" might not have
installed or may not want to get installed (just for that).

Platforms like Microsoft and Apple try to build a wall between two
separate “developer” versus “ordinary user” modes of using the system;
Linux doesn’t.