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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Hobbyware WinCrap 11 strikes again Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:39:05 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: <vogu3p$21cd3$1@dont-email.me> References: <vo75q5$3vki0$1@dont-email.me> <zCJpP.39$EyH6.1@fx45.iad> <vo7ttl$3nof$1@dont-email.me> <qhLpP.67094$za5e.59176@fx09.iad> <vo830p$4ntj$1@dont-email.me> <f_1qP.80552$YsRf.33634@fx18.iad> <vocbbn$1444h$1@dont-email.me> <1WoqP.4088$NgFa.1524@fx46.iad> <voeqct$1lgc9$1@dont-email.me> <6CIqP.4095$NgFa.688@fx46.iad> <vogq82$20qbu$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 02:39:07 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d0571b8f2d6c7ddb6eb1474ffd93153b"; logging-data="2142627"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX181+oDvC3CIS7gFs0wPdt2J" User-Agent: Betterbird (Windows) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pmm+MoGRv2A8eqC0aaHkvrb6XMQ= In-Reply-To: <vogq82$20qbu$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2444 On 2/11/2025 7:33 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:51:59 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote: > >> I'm not sure why they bothered making Flatpaks and Snaps when AppImages >> work pretty much everywhere. > > I don’t understand the point of any of them. They seem like attempts to > retrofit something that looks like MSI (only slightly better designed) > onto the Linux ecosystem. Why? Clearly it is to woo the proprietary > software developers -- the ones who don’t want to release their source > code to let the distro maintainers worry about packaging. > > The downside is that each SnapImage/FlatApp/whatever has to carry around > all its dependencies with it, instead of being able to share dependencies > through the package system. The idea that developers, particularly > proprietary developers, can do a better job of keeping these dependencies > up to date than the distro maintainers (whose job it is to do just that), > just seems laughable. You just thought up your own idea, then quickly concluded it's laughable. Congrats on the self-nuke, Larry Duh!