Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

Posted Feb 8, 2023 0:14 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks by mb
Parent article: Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

No, I've realised AppSnapPaks are also very good for programs written in the author's pet language/framework.

ncdu is a good example, it was useful and then it was rewritten in Zig, which means anyone on a source-based distro wishing to use it now has to suffer an entire bundled copy of LLVM for one CLI program. Gentoo offers a precompiled binary version as a mercy, but it would probably be better if they could just redistribute a self-contained version in one of these formats.

Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

Posted Feb 8, 2023 6:50 UTC (Wed) by WolfWings (subscriber, #56790) [Link]

Honestly the LLVM-ification of so much software is the main reason I finally gave up on Gentoo. It's just no longer worth my time when building the tools just to build the program takes hours even on fairly beefy portable electronics.

Yes, I know there's 'bin' packages for most of it but that's another whole jumble of complexity versus just surrendering on the source-based front since I'm more busy using than developing software these days.

Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

Posted Feb 8, 2023 21:40 UTC (Wed) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]

Have you tried duc as an alternative ? (http://duc.zevv.nl/)