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> But do we really believe 1/38th of a person is judiciously considering how to overrule upstream's decisions, attentively investigating user bug reports, and so on?

It looks much worse than it is, because most packages are really boring from a maintainer perspective.

For example, KDE releases a hundred or so applications. Some of them are probably very interesting to package, but for most packages, `cmake && make && make install` is just fine (maybe plus a certain KDE integration macro that your packaging tool already carries).



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