On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 18:41 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Sun, 2020-04-26 at 13:37 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > It is a way that some people/projects distribute their software. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage > > I hope we don't get lumbered with a lot of them. One of the best > things about Fedora (and similar Linuxes) was the one-stop way of > keeping everything up-to-date (yum update, dnf update, commands, and > their GUI tools, etc). > > Going down the Windows route of having to individually update each > application from disparate sources, or each application doing their own > check for updates (usually when you start them up, and just want to use > them without wasting any time), is something I do not want to go back > to. > > And I'm sure we'd also see applications that don't quite work right on > our systems, because it tried to be too universal. Agreed. An appimage might be useful as a way to test-drive something, but I wouldn't want to be tied to it. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
