On Tue, 2020-09-22 at 22:20 -0500, David wrote: > Do some appimages contain proprietary blobs. Dunno, but I would not be surprised. > does that sort of fall into the same category as installing third- > party repos ?? If you didn't install something from the Fedora repos, it *is* external. Whether that be from another repo, or just a standalone download. It comes to the same thing: The problems with any external file/package are that they may not fit in with the rest of your installation (every distribution of Linux is different in some way), and *you* will have to fix the problem, it's not going to be solved by something/someone else. Compare that to installing things from the usual repos: It's debugged by everyone using the system. When you install something that needs extra files, the system sorts that out for you. And it can do the converse if you decide to uninstall something. And, as a general rule, you're only going to find compatible packages in the Fedora repos. You're highly unlikely to find a package that cannot be used within the repo, well not in the general repo, there may well be things in testing that are not ready for use *yet*. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 25 17:23:54 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ 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
