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		sph on Dec 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Make Apps for Linux Arch Linux packaging is the only one that makes sense. If I install openssl, I want everything that upstream ships, which means command line tools, headers, libraries, man pages. The Debian/Ubuntu convention is terrible, and anachronistic. Disk space is cheap, my time is not.

account42 on Dec 12, 2023 [–]

You might but most people don't want OpenSSL headers cluttering up their system just because they installed something that needs to make TLS connections.

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