Or possibly the reality of what is. If it was commercial they would
offer nothing outside their approach. Chill ...
On 12/27/24 4:01 AM, Bob Marčan via users wrote:
On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:10:30 +1030
"Tim via users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
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That was a rhetorical question.
You have described all the weaknesses of this approach.
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