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  • Raspin@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlThe future of Linux
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    8 months ago

    Packaging software for linux is an insane problem. All distributions are so similar yet so different, all of these nuisances prevent you from making much assumptions about the host OS which for instance forced flatpak to be basically a generic distro you run apps on. For obvious reasons it's not an ideal situation, memory consumption is bad, performance in various ways is impacted. I believe that the true packaging format will have to cut some corners and be specific by design to smaller set of distributions. Pretty much how snaps are built around Ubuntu, which imo. is a necessary compromise to have something reasonably fast and lightweight.


  • Raspin@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlWho does flatpak/snap benefit?
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    10 months ago

    It helps distributing applications that don't break left and right. Deepin is creating its own thing as well and they said they are gonna check host system first then supplement missing components if needed. This should result in maximum space saving, but allow developers to cherry pick dependencies.

    How this is gonna play out remains to be seen.