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I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) (getfresh.dev)
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[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is literally what flat pack was meant to address. Just package has push it and let any system use it. So it is a little more complicated and another step on top of everything.

Flatpak is absolutely terrible. As a second repository, it breaks source of truth, doesn't share dependency or SBOM data with the system and at worst begs for dependency hell.

At best it's XKCD 927.

[โ€“] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

How does it lead to dependency hell? I thought the point was that it didn't share dependencies with the host, so different apps could have different versions of the same package and everything would still work.