My main reaction to reading this tale of suffering for packaging for various Linux distros was to appreciate #FreeBSD more. Packaging Rust and Go things is easy. Running your own package repo is eas...
@nprofile1q... nice! Looks like Rust, Go and Haskell have good support for dealing with dependencies: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/special/#using-cargo
Interestingly Fedora says that Go programs *must* vendor their dependencies (which contradicts the usual no vendoring for system packages...) https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Golang/#_vendored_dependencies
Although it seems like a better way forward would be to add better support for emitting distro packages into the upstream language-specific tooling. That'd be a one-off effort / language ecosystem, rather than having each library/application having to figure out how to do this on its own.
It'd probably require augmenting the upstream language-specific packages with more metadata, although it feels like a https://xkcd.com/927/ problem.
Interestingly Fedora says that Go programs *must* vendor their dependencies (which contradicts the usual no vendoring for system packages...) https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Golang/#_vendored_dependencies
Although it seems like a better way forward would be to add better support for emitting distro packages into the upstream language-specific tooling. That'd be a one-off effort / language ecosystem, rather than having each library/application having to figure out how to do this on its own.
It'd probably require augmenting the upstream language-specific packages with more metadata, although it feels like a https://xkcd.com/927/ problem.
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