Distributors entering Flatpakland [LWN.net]

Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 9, 2022 11:46 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Distributors entering Flatpakland by bluca
Parent article: Distributors entering Flatpakland

> But I think it would have been worth it to end up with a much cleaner, healthier and safer ecosystem overall.

Sure, if your goal is to stick with 1% market share forever and ensure everything would be totally pure and clear it would be a worthwhile goal.

> Sure it would have costed some additional pain in the short term, at the beginning.

That's what I was hearing for last 20+ years about .deb and .rpm based approaches, too.

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Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 9, 2022 12:35 UTC (Sat) by bluca (subscriber, #118303) [Link] (1 responses)

Why would any of that happen if instead of infinite runtimes, there was a couple dozens? Even fewer considering extensions would cover pretty much every use case

Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 9, 2022 19:32 UTC (Sat) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link]

Then all the Gentoo users would be out of luck.