Message-ID: <67156fd8@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: What exactly is Snap or Flatpack ? Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 21 Oct 2024 07:02:17 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 21 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Bytes: 1584 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2024-10-20, stepore wrote: >>> And how does this relate to kubernetes? >> >> Snap, flatpak, appimage are distribution-independent software package >> formats. They bundle the application with all its required dependencies. > > So does static linking. :-) I'm not sure about Snap and Flatpack, but from looking at AppImage many of the packages for it are for programs that won't build with static linking. It also does still leave some libraries to be provided by the system by default, like OpenSSL. I explored making AppImages to make a portable build of a large GUI program that wouldn't link statically, but jeeze it was a whole lot more work than making a static binary. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#