On Thu, 2024-12-26 at 22:56 +0000, Bob Marčan via users wrote: > Should we abandon rpm and adapt snap or flatpak for Fedora? > Realy? Hell, no... Generic packages don't quite fit into specific ecosystems. They don't have the optimisations. Sometimes they're only partially compatible (I can't print, at all, from various programs that are appimages). Sometimes they're completely incompatible (there are other things on your system that need to be the right version for them to run), so the one-size-fits-all idea is just wrong. I'm reminded of Java apps. Which also never fitted in with your OS, sticking out like a sore thumb. They looked very different, often very primitive. They didn't quite work the way every other program did on your system. One way that packages can be made generic is to include everything in them, including libraries that would otherwise be a system library of some kind (not *the* system library, but one that's used by many programs). This makes every generic package bigger than it needs to b be. On almost every OS, for an app to work well (or at all), it has to be compiled for the OS you use it with. Or run in some kind of emulator that pretends to be something else. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
