[GoLUG] Bottles

[Steve Litt]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:20:13 -0800
Kyle Terrien <kyle at terren.us> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 12:52:47PM -0800, Ron wrote:
> > Alex Finkel wrote on 2025-02-22 12:02:
> >   
> > > One big difference between
> > > Snaps and Flatpaks is that the Snap backend infrastructure is
> > > proprietary and controlled by Canonical.  
> > 
> > Who controls https://flathub.org, and how is that different than
> > https://snapcraft.io/store?  
> 
> Red Hat.  😛
> 
> Canonical controls Snapcraft, and Red Hat controls Flathub.  So, you
> have to pick your political alliance and aim the mud cannon at your
> opponent.  Tribalism is strong.
> 
> I, however, am aligned with neither Red Hat nor Canonical.  So, I will
> throw mud at both.  The situation stinks.
> 
> Both are intended for use by upstream developers, 

Who brought it on themselves, by depending on the latest features of
the latest versions of the zillions of latest libraries, to the point
where getting their wondrous creations are so difficult for distro
maintainers to manage that their wondrous creations are being abandoned
right and left. Did they solve it by reducing the gratuitous
dependencies? You bet not. They "solved" it by creating these distro
worshipping, what, sandboxes? Oh. And now for Snap, systemd is a
dependency. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

SteveT
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