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[QUESTION] Flatpak or AUR?
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It's not like the AUR packages need recompiling after every update, so I'm using standard Arch repos + AUR and that's it.
Everything will be using the same (bleeding edge) dependencies, so if something breaks, I can find what changed and fix it and / or roll-back and / or report it to the dev.
I've been down this whole scenario with Windows back in the day... DLL hell, InstallShield packaging, compiled zips, weird %PATH% sets for execution, the lot... and at the end, it's always simpler to use common libraries and work with the devs to fix bugs - after all, they're usually developing on a "normally" packaged system anyway.