It's actually a reasonable app deployment mechanism for systems where you only have regular-user access. You can bundle up a compiled app, dependencies, and se

It's actually a reasonable app deployment mechanism for systems where you only have regular-user access. You can bundle up a compiled app, dependencies, and settings, and have a single, repeatable, easy to deploy build. if the system has a tmpfs/ramdisk mount, it can also extract itself there, and have a no HDD deployment, which can dramatically speed things up too.