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Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault. (lemmy.world)
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[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 11 months ago

You cannot statically link everything. Take graphics libraries and APIs for example, do you statically link against nvidia's or mesa's opengl?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Sure, but presumably AppImage/Flatpak/Docker cannot help with that either...?

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago

Flatpak solves the problem with targetable platform versions, you just update the manifest for your app every like 6-12 months to target the new one

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Ah, interesting. So, it's different from just statically linking against the latest driver lib every 6-12 months, because the Flatpak runtime gives you a bit of a guarantee that there won't be breaking changes in the meantime.

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Bingo, and if the latest mesa breaks your app for example, you can target an older one until it's fixed instead of end users having to fuck around downgrading system packages

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 11 months ago

This is the problem those tools try to solve. They package everything else upon which software might depend that canโ€™t simply be linked into a single binary.

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