this is bad for the ecosystem of software and also culture as a whole

this might sound like a weird claim if you've a) never tried to pull a large software project off a website and build it from scratch, or b) do that all the time. but

it's a problem because it kind of undermines the concept of open source in a pretty basic way. for a lot of software, grabbing the thing and making it do what you want involves an indefinite amount of overcomplicated bullshit as you try to install the right versions of a bunch of dependencies you've never heard of and decipher output from an idiosyncratic build system. you can't just get in there and experiment

@aeonofdiscord Well build recipes in most distros/ports should be there for you, like I don't really need to care about how much of a hell it is to configure firefox or chromium buildsystem.
And of course it manages the dependencies.

@lanodan @aeonofdiscord Yeah but sometimes you can't rely on those, like if you're working with software that isn't packaged