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The best of breed here is zeroinstall - https://0install.net/ https://0install.net/. The software catalog is here - http://0install.de/catalog/ http://0install.

• pbhjpbhj 8y ago
  Any idea why they went with snap instead? There seems to have been a recent proliferation of new packaging systems -- which is fine. But, from an Ubuntu perspective I don't think they should be included if they're not integrated with apt (perhaps it is and I missed the memo?). Digikam moved to AppImage, which sounds cool but adds a further system one needs to update, and the automatic update never worked for me (I think their package didn't include the necessary metadata?). Having all application updates available in one place, and official packages be recent, is the 'killer feature' for me. I used to be a Slackware user, but when I migrated to slapt-get I realised I was done with rolling my own packages and checkinstall-ing them and wanted system where things were more managed - not having half the apps installed ad-hoc. When you have to install a new system to get just a few apps it feels like I might as well go back to ./configure;make;[check|make ]install. Seems we need an xdg install record with a unified app that calls the sub-system (pip, 0install, AppImage, shell script, dpkg, whatever) to abstract all that away.
• rkeene2 8y ago
  AppFS ( http://appfs.rkeene.org/ http://appfs.rkeene.org/ ) is an extension of the idea proposed originally by 0install (in their original LazyFS approach).