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> People have tried to provide a packaging format that would allow apps to declare their depencies in a distribution neutral manner[1]. It was, uh, not a huge s
by renonce 5y ago
> People have tried to provide a packaging format that would allow apps to declare their depencies in a distribution neutral manner[1]. It was, uh, not a huge success.
Have you looked into Nix?
- mjg59 5y agoDoesn't Nix ship its own version of every library dependency rather than using system libraries?
- the_duke 5y agoNix allows each package to use a specific version of a library and let's them co-exist via unique paths. In NixOS the whole system works this way, so there aren't really any global system libraries, except for the graphics system.
- CMCDragonkai 5y agoNixOS is the only sane Linux distro on the planet now. At the end of the day every distro wants their own app store.
- rgoulter 5y agoNix itself is more focused on "distribute from this host with nix, to this other host with nix". Though, here is e.g. https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle https://github.com/matthewbauer/nix-bundle, which is supported as an experimental command in nix 2.4.