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There are solutions to this problem (e. g. ZeroInstall [1]), but the distributions don't support them, since they want to keep you vendor locked-in. Guess why U
by jhasse 11y ago
There are solutions to this problem (e. g. ZeroInstall [1]), but the distributions don't support them, since they want to keep you vendor locked-in. Guess why Ubuntu is developing Snappy and not using xdg-app [2]? Also purely functional package managers exist [3], distributions just ignore them. It's hard to use something not based on deb or rpm these days.
[1] http://0install.net http://0install.net
[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps
[3] https://nixos.org/nix/ https://nixos.org/nix/
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoI find it hilarious how you make the implication that Snappy is some deliberate NIH of xdg-app, when xdg-app itself is GNOME/Red Hat's NIH of Nix. If anything, we should be lauding Canonical for keeping to themselves in their corner instead of seeking greater validity across the ecosystem with half-baked ideas.