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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 4 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 4 months ago

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

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 4 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 4 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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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 4 months ago

This is the problem those tools try to solve. They package everything else upon which software might depend that can’t simply be linked into a single binary.

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