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25 years after its initial ratification, the Debian project has voted to amend their Social Contract to allow proprietary firmware in the installer (lists.debian.org)

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[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I didn’t mean running on the top of some distro

i wrote that 1st paragraph just in case.

but “native” compatibility to existing packaging

2nd paragraph

if the packages are (at least source-level) compatible to something existing and widespread and run as first-class citizens there.

Traditional package managers and formats are so bad... Well Unix, GNU/Linux is a mess.

no current better way around it other than the Nix and Guix way. Flatpak is the 2nd better current model for portability. Today I only package to Nix and Guix; sometimes Flatpak as well.