28 Feb
2025
28 Feb
'25
10:09 a.m.
On Thursday 27 February 2025 23:52:29 Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users wrote:
I think that's not their idea. Wether snaps or flatpaks, you just choose the
application in a list and click "install".
The goal of these systems is
a) to make it easy for the user to install
b) to make it easy for the developper to distribute the app
c) to make it distribution independant
For me it's OK as long as such system is not forces on you. Here on MX-Linux
it's an alternative to standard install, you don't have to use it.
Cases where it was useful to me:
OpenBoard that otherwise oinly installs on *buntu
Darktable that is only provide as an old version (and lacks support for newer
raw formats
KDE applications that would require "polluting" my system with KDE binaries
Downsides:
Takes a lot of place
As we have seen some see decurity issues
Must be updated on their own
The adoption
of all these is worrisome.
I wonder about the following: If we wanted a package that includes all
dependencies, why not provide a tarball with all dependencies? Then, I can
decide where to unpack it and set the library paths for example through a
config script. This is already done for many applications.
Gianluca