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You can use the "buncha-files-ina-folder paradigm" on Linux and Unix as well, but generally, applications are written with the assumption that they will be inst
by joshuaissac 5y ago
You can use the "buncha-files-ina-folder paradigm" on Linux and Unix as well, but generally, applications are written with the assumption that they will be installed at a particular location, and can unexpectedly fail if you put them elsewhere.
The RPM Package Manager itself is an example of this. It can be configured to be installed to a custom location via the build system, but it has hard-coded paths in some scripts so the package manager would break when it hits this code months after appearing to work correctly.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoRight, theoretically Linux applications can work this way, there's even AppImage to really prove the point. The problem is that basically nothing in the Linux world does do that because it just isn't the way things are done. At the end of the day, it's the same difference to me.
- guerrilla 5y agoDo you know about Snap and Flatpack? I think the latter may solve some of your problems. 1. https://snapcraft.io/ https://snapcraft.io/ 2. https://www.flatpak.org/ https://www.flatpak.org/
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28409524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28409524