Great, and nobody said you had to. If someone likes your application enough and they want to get it packaged they will - personally, however, ease of packaging is something that makes or breaks whether I "like" something - which is why as much as I love Mumble I'm not putting any effort in to revive its package in Fedora, because ICE is a huge pain in the butt to build and I just don't want to waste time on it.
> 3. I couldn't care less what you won't package. Especially so if it's due to prioritizing your own needs over everyone else's. Take it or leave it.
Outside of commercial distributions this is literally how everything works. I package things that are useful to me that I hope would be useful to other people, but I don't know of many package maintainers that spend time on software they personally have no use for.
> Distributions have had too much influence over upstream projects for way too long. Thank god people are finally starting to reject their diva-like, our-way-or-the-highway attitudes.
If you don't want distributions to have so much influence over packaging your software then do it yourself, nothing makes me happier than seeing .spec files or debian/ folders inside a repository of some application I'm looking at - 99% of the work is already done outside of maybe cleaning the scripts and metadata up to meet packaging standards.
> and frankly, for things outside of the core OS/libs/compilers/tools, using deb/rpm packaging is very, very overrated.
I too at one point believed this, but then I remembered how crappy package management on Windows is as a result of this philosophy. They even HAVE a package manager (MSI/Windows Installer) that nobody uses properly! And you know what, good luck hoping all your applications have kept every dependency and every transitive dependency they bundled in up to date - when you get your package included in a distribution that's done for you by the package maintainer that is supporting your package.
> Likewise for dynamic linking.
Strongly disagree. I hope you have fun downloading update bits for every application that statically links against openssl next time some stupid bug like heartbleed comes along. I still think Google made the wrong call with Go, same goes with Mozilla and Rust.
