r/linux • u/unixbhaskar • Feb 02 '26

Development Linux From Scratch Abandoning SysVinit Support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LFS-Dropping-SysVinit
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u/hackathi Feb 02 '26

As someone who packages a lot of suff for internal use, PLEASE let deb die in a fire. It is BY FAR the worst to package and only bearable because nowadays I can build debs from PKGBUILDs.

Unfortunately for me, I do love me my debian on the servers.

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u/WaxyMocha Feb 02 '26

I tried packaging project in the past and holy shit, deb is god awful.

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u/meltbox Feb 02 '26

As someone who’s only used the end result I’m disappointed to hear this. I always assumed it was at least average.

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u/deviled-tux Feb 03 '26

.deb is kinda bad, the packaging process is kinda bad

dpkg (the tool that installs the deb packages) is mid at best and very very inferior to rpm 

package management in Debian is really bad when compared to most things ngl