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> This is why I'm glad that a lot of Linux software is moving towards distro agnostic containerized applications To me, it entirely depends on the specific pac
by _jal 5y ago
> This is why I'm glad that a lot of Linux software is moving towards distro agnostic containerized applications
To me, it entirely depends on the specific packaging job, not even who is doing it. Entirely too often, they ignore distro convention, and can introduce bugs and other security issues through ignorance, laziness or mistake.
Long term, flatpack and its ilk will devalue distro differences and put pressure on uniformity. Whether or not you consider this is a good thing may depend on your opinion of/relationship to RedHat/IBM.
For me, if it isn't in the Debian repos, I'm probably going to ignore it.
- _-david-_ 5y ago> Entirely too often, they ignore distro convention Can you clarify what you mean by this? I have used both the flatpak and rpm (on Fedora) version of Firefox and don't really notice a difference. Perhaps Firefox is just one of the packages that does distro convention properly?
- _jal 5y agoWasn't specifically referring to Firefox, didn't intend to imply that - I have not even used the flatpak version. It was a general comment that is not specific to Flatpak - it will a problem for any cross-distro packaging. (Heck, plenty of developers mess up native packaging for distros they're not familiar with.)