Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

Posted Feb 8, 2023 16:55 UTC (Wed) by sionescu (subscriber, #59410)
In reply to: Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks by jhoblitt
Parent article: Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

> I am surprised by the attitude that some end users trust an upstream to write software but not compile or package it. If an upstream cant be trusted to operate the build system they wrote... It's time to find a different upstream.

Why surprised ? It seems pretty obvious to me that most upstream developers know close to nothing about integrating a piece of software into the OS. It's very similar to how I've met plenty of good software developers that knew their business matter very well (e.g. in banking, GIS, electronics simulations) but had absolutely no competence in running the code they wrote. That's why the ops team was around.