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It is rare to see something come out of Fedora that is not NIH. As for all the mentioned package/image managers, IMO they all bring more problems then solution
by gens 10y ago
It is rare to see something come out of Fedora that is not NIH.
As for all the mentioned package/image managers, IMO they all bring more problems then solutions (except maybe nix). Dependency resolution brings sloppiness and keeping the programs dependencies up to date would kill the internets and hard drives (compared to a normal package manager). They should just build a build bot and amen (or just not do anything). The only "problem" they solve is proprietary program distribution, and that is solved by a Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (and fd.o) compliant installer such as MojoSetup (as used by GoG).
- pmontra 10y agoYeah, my worry is that when a vulnerability hits libc we have to download all the snaps again and the vulnerable libc is still there in the abandoned snaps. There are many other libraries used by many programs that would suffer from the same problem. I'm thinking about openssl. Edit: somebody answered to my doubts in a comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13559060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13559060