Don't just vendor - rebuild the ecosystem and persuade the vendor to work on software management ...

Posted Jan 29, 2025 14:31 UTC (Wed) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958)
In reply to: Don't just vendor - rebuild the ecosystem and persuade the vendor to work on software management ... by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Vendoring Go packages by default in Fedora

flatpak and snap are there mostly for proprietary applications. See also the push for wayland and isolation.

flatpak doesn't even allow CLI applications, so it's completely useless for go.

Completely different use cases.

Don't just vendor - rebuild the ecosystem and persuade the vendor to work on software management ...

Posted Feb 7, 2025 18:35 UTC (Fri) by TheBicPen (guest, #169067) [Link] (1 responses)

> flatpak and snap are there mostly for proprietary applications.

That's not true at all. I can't speak for snap, but on flathub, the vast majority of applications are FOSS.

Don't just vendor - rebuild the ecosystem and persuade the vendor to work on software management ...

Posted Mar 11, 2025 14:15 UTC (Tue) by ssokolow (guest, #94568) [Link]

*nod* For example, I install Inkscape off Flathub instead of through the distro repos because it allows me to get the latest version when it works, on top of Kubuntu LTS, but trusting that I can reliably downgrade my way around the occasional crash bugs they ship with a single command.