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Nineteen distribution channels later: what it actually costs to give a terminal editor away for free on Linux, and why the next step is a static musl binary that updates itself.
  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    15 days ago

    This is literally what flat pack was meant to address. Just package has push it and let any system use it. So it is a little more complicated and another step on top of everything.

    Flatpak is absolutely terrible. As a second repository, it breaks source of truth, doesn’t share dependency or SBOM data with the system and at worst begs for dependency hell.

    At best it’s XKCD 927.

    • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      14 days ago

      How does it lead to dependency hell? I thought the point was that it didn’t share dependencies with the host, so different apps could have different versions of the same package and everything would still work.