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0 pointsgettodachoppa2y ago0 comments

What is the advantage of PPAs over an apt repo that users place in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/someexternalapp? Is it having a central site that users can search for packages? Basically a social portal?

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vetrom2y ago

Having an automated per-user publishing pipeline for packages is a non trivial endeavour.

These days you can get close with github-actions style pieplines and releases, but the PPA system has always been a more complete platform in terms of dependency management.

You can get close with some debian tooling (im a fan of sbuild), but it's some overhead to deal with.

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0 pointsgettodachoppa2y ago0 comments

What is the advantage of PPAs over an apt repo that users place in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/someexternalapp? Is it having a central site that users can search for packages? Basically a social portal?

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vetrom2y ago

Having an automated per-user publishing pipeline for packages is a non trivial endeavour.

These days you can get close with github-actions style pieplines and releases, but the PPA system has always been a more complete platform in terms of dependency management.

You can get close with some debian tooling (im a fan of sbuild), but it's some overhead to deal with.

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