Comment by geofft
5 years ago
> If users experiencing issues with the ambee library in this package, they will knock on my door. And I'm not willing to support that or accept that burden. Especially as I don't see a good repacking reason in this case.
Users will contact the author for support, but users are getting the software indirectly via a packager, which means a) there might be changes from the packager b) they might be getting an older version that appears to be the "latest" and c) they don't have a way to install a modified version provided by the author to test out a fix in the same way that they installed their current version.
(It's true that with nixpkgs these problems are much more solvable than in basically any other distro, but the risk is stil there.)
This is the case with literally every piece of software packaged for linux, it seems that nix is just the first place to attempt to package this. The project looks to only be a week old anyhow.