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> This is why I am a massive proponent of AppImages I joined Linux late-game, and only recently discovered that AppImages were in some cases much nicer to work
by ramon156 2y ago
> This is why I am a massive proponent of AppImages
I joined Linux late-game, and only recently discovered that AppImages were in some cases much nicer to work with. The thing that I was missing though was.. a package manager. If there was any distro that would build their package manager around AppImages, then I would gladly use it.
- idle_zealot 2y agoWhat would that even mean? A package manager is for tracking and installing dependencies, and putting things in the right place in the filesystem. AppImages bundle their dependencies and don't expect to unpack into a filesystem, you just put them in an /apps directory. Do you just mean that you want a repository of AppImages to search? Otherwise your "package manager" is 'curl $APPIMAGE_URL > ~/apps/$APP_NAME' and 'rm ~/apps/$APP_NAME'.
- 3eb7988a1663 2y agoI have no appreciation for the differences between AppImage and Flatpak, but Flatpak does at least have a package manager which will pull in newer versions for you.