Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak

A look at Flatpak madness

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@martijnbraam one wonders why we bother with shared libraries anymore. since we're obviously well past the point of caring about ram and disk space, most of what flatpak tries to accomplish would be more easily done just building a static binary. then people who run the software can be suspicious of binaries in the traditional way because software does stuff, and not given a false sense of security by a weird packaging and distribution system...
@chainik @martijnbraam

> one wonders why we bother with shared libraries anymore.

First thing that comes to mind is that I wouldn't be fond a world where libssl (and friends) exists in 50 versions on my system, because each and every package that need it bundle it. I'm not saying this is an end-all argument for anything, just pointing out that it's not a silver bullet.