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None of the above. Native debs/rpms/whatever for desktops, docker images for servers.
but what about the apps that are not in the official repository?
for example tuba the mastodon client
package myself; I chose Gentoo (and previously Arch) in part because its reasonably easy to package things there.
Most build systems are covered by eclasses ( libraries) that handle the repetitive minutia every package that build system needs.
Here's the tuba ebuild for example (from GURU, the Gentoo equivilant of the AUR), 90% of it is just listing the dependencies and telling it to use a few eclasses to handle everything else.
Tuba is in the AUR
aur is limited to arch based distros only
And rpms are for redhat tree, so ?
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Your example package is readily available in my distro in native was my point. If your distro doesn't have it then maybe you need to change distros.
Do you check packages you install from the aur? I ask, because it seems like people don't. I did, and it was a pain in the ass, and that's why I stopped using arch and arch based distros.
Then a tgz that I unpack to /opt/ or somewhere in ~/