On Monday, 8 July 2013 at 18:54:30 UTC, Baz wrote:
Fedora a few years ago has proposed the D language as a part of their very "extremist open source ashole repository". The fact is that D is totally missing from their dev packages ("sudo yum i want some only opensource douche stuff even if I have to type make make install every two minutes"). And If you setup dmd manually they'll propose you to setup ldc, which is not possible due to some broken package dependencies...
Where did that come from? I never knew there was such anger against strict open-source movements, but recently I've been rudely awakened.
I use fedora for everything I do with D. I have dmd, ldc and gdc all set up, no significant problems. I also make use of yum a great deal, and generally find everything I need with little to no trouble, no make involved. Sure, dmd isn't gonna go in the official repositories, but rpmfusion exists for a reason...
