Nineteen distribution channels later: what it actually costs to give a terminal editor away for free on Linux, and why the next step is a static musl binary that updates itself.
I know right? This is literally what flat pack was meant to address. Just package has push it and let any system use it. So it is a little more complicated and another step on top of everything.
To be fair, he does address why flatpak isn’t really suitable for his package in particular, as it needs to get out of the sandbix flatpak puts it in, which is hacky. None-the-less, it does feel like he’s making a mountain out of a mole hill.
This is literally what flat pack was meant to address. Just package has push it and let any system use it. So it is a little more complicated and another step on top of everything.
Flatpak is absolutely terrible. As a second repository, it breaks source of truth, doesn’t share dependency or SBOM data with the system and at worst begs for dependency hell.
I know right? This is literally what flat pack was meant to address. Just package has push it and let any system use it. So it is a little more complicated and another step on top of everything.
To be fair, he does address why flatpak isn’t really suitable for his package in particular, as it needs to get out of the sandbix flatpak puts it in, which is hacky. None-the-less, it does feel like he’s making a mountain out of a mole hill.
Flatpak is absolutely terrible. As a second repository, it breaks source of truth, doesn’t share dependency or SBOM data with the system and at worst begs for dependency hell.
At best it’s XKCD 927.