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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:39:05 -0500
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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!