On 6/5/23 09:35, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
"easily install from Flathub" brings us closer to Windows where you "easily" install software from random places on the Internet and they bring their own bundled outdated versions of libraries. Flatpaks have the added downside of not integrating well with the OS on top of the bloat they bring. No, thank you. I'd rather have proper well-integrated RPMs installed from official distro repos.
Unfortunately very few people still understand the value of using system libraries instead of bundling one hundred of them in each package. The day a zlib vulnerability is discovered, instead of just updating a 50k lib rpm (and restart apps, or maybe reboot), you have to update 30 apps, each of them sized at 50MB, and including possibly badly patched versions of the lib etc. (good luck knowing which app is affected, when the fix will be available, ...). There is a disturbing trend to bundling everything, which comes from environments with no shared libraries (Android) or from languages that do not do dynamic linking (golang). Whatever is not in a rule-conforming rpm, is not correctly packaged, in my opinion. Regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
