Benefits of Linux Distro Packaging

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Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 9th of December 2015 12:52:37 PM Filed under

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Recently, I have been adding a lot of patches to the version of Eclipse (Mars.1) that is packaged in Fedora Linux. This post attempts to explain why.

In my opinion, one of the chief benefits to packaging your software for a Linux distribution is the ability of the distribution to carry patches. These patches generally come in two flavours.

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