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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I don't maintain distro specific packages, I have better uses for my time.
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yes, and that is too bad. for many of us the instructions of the binary or source install notes are clear, but for many newcomers to GNU/Linux they might as well be written in Chinese ("
GLIBC you can downgrade to an older version by getting the .tar.bz2 file for your architecture" is a pearl of geekspeak)
and the 'I have better uses for my time' is a terrific way to tell them to get lost. (That kind of condescension has even pretty much stopped on Debian mailing lists).
Your application is fantastic; it's just too bad that you don't seem to care for the many linux noobs out there
