2026-08-31 17:39 UTC
@noodles@social.earth.li I've been thinking a lot about this recently too and mostly agree with what you've written here
but I've come to accept that we're currently in a measured retreat and as such it's not going to be realistic to expect a huge debian-like selection of packages/architectures in the slop-resistant future
in fact, having a huge selection of packages is turning out to be more of a liability than a strength; we are going to have to batten down some hatches and cut some dead weight or we'll drown
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@technomancy@hey.hagelb.org 2026-08-31 17:41
@noodles@social.earth.li FWIW I spent much of last week messing around with freebsd and I think the situation with binary packages there is quite good now! unfortunately the slop problem is already pretty bad there (not as bad as linux) but without having a policy to keep it from getting worse it's not very appealing to make a big switch just to end up back in sloptown