Distributors entering Flatpakland [LWN.net]

Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 10, 2022 4:35 UTC (Sun) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418)
In reply to: Distributors entering Flatpakland by khim
Parent article: Distributors entering Flatpakland

> Most developers don't want to bother with publishing their sources thus any format which makes it impossible is DOA.

Most packages in GNU/Linux distros are free software and the source code is published.

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Distributors entering Flatpakland

Posted Jul 12, 2022 9:31 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

And only tiny minority of software ends up in GNU/Linux distros.

Of course software there would be rebuildable! It's like trying to see how many people are using Internet via an Internet-based medium.

But even the majority of deb and rpm packages (delivered by various commercial providers and/or parts of lesser-known distributions) come without source.

You just try to live in the imaginary world where these don't exist.