On Thursday 28 October 2021 00.29:48 J Leslie Turriff wrote: > What I don't like about these sorts of packages is that they assume that > they will be used on a single-user machine, and if there is more than one > user on the system the package has to be installed in each user's space; Unless you "install" them where all can access. > also, containing their own dependent libraries, etc., IMO they're > bloatware. That is only true if you also have the dependancies installed elsewhere. In that case I agree with you. But we have talked of two cases where you are wrong: - running a KDE application without installing KDE - running an application when you can't install the required dependancies Besides, many have far more disk space than they need, so the "bloat" for a few programs seems not so big. > Then too, there's the security issues of having possibly > back-level code imbedded in them. The risk exists theoretically, but has never been proven, AFAIK. As far as I am concerned, the benefits are worth the risks for a few apps. Of course I'd install from repositories if I have the choice. Thierry ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
