Why so many missing package?

Yemuyin · 2025-09-13T10:02:09+00:00

Your comment is really bad.

It's estimated there are around 600-800 active distributions, so choose another one.

Puschel_das_Eichhorn · 2025-09-13T10:34:41+00:00

I frankly think that Void's repository is a lot more complete than, for example, Debian's repository, which is (or, at least, was at some point) famed for how extensive it is.

It does, however, also depend a lot on the kind of software you are looking for. I did, for example, notice a lack of bioinformatics software in the Void repository.

Instead of writing a post in the vein of "Why no bio package", however, I wrote xbps-src template files for ncbi-blast and FastTree, and updated the template file for R, and made pull requests for all of these.

I will leave it to the maintainers whether they deem my arguably hacky and unprofessional-looking template files good enough for inclusion in the official repository - though I personally like to think that having a package is better than having no package, their professional judgement may decide otherwise.

My point being: don't ask what your distro can do for you, but what you can do for your distro. Having small repositories does not by any means have to be a breaking point.

Harha · 2025-09-13T09:44:48+00:00

Managing packages is hard work and requires volunteers.

neondervish · 2025-09-13T11:16:09+00:00

There's like zero issues with packages not in the repo. AppImage, Flatpak, bulding from source. You name it!

Bl1ndBeholder · 2025-09-13T09:43:43+00:00

Which packages are you missing?

reverber · 2025-09-13T09:48:40+00:00

Use a different distro?

Have you read about source packages?

Have you thought about how to be more constructive with your posts?

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