28 Oct
2021
28 Oct
'21
7:42 a.m.
On Thursday 28 October 2021 00.29:48 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
What I don't like about these sorts of packages is
that they assume that
they will be used on a single-user machine, and if there is more than one
user on the system the package has to be installed in each user's space;
Unless you "install" them where all can access.
also, containing their own dependent libraries, etc.,
IMO they're
bloatware.
That is only true if you also have the dependancies installed elsewhere. In
that case I agree with you. But we have talked of two cases where you are
wrong:
- running a KDE application without installing KDE
- running an application when you can't install the required dependancies
Besides, many have far more disk space than they need, so the "bloat" for a
few programs seems not so big.
Then too, there's the security issues of having
possibly
back-level code imbedded in them.
The risk exists theoretically, but has never been proven, AFAIK.
As far as I am concerned, the benefits are worth the risks for a few apps. Of
course I'd install from repositories if I have the choice.
Thierry