Martijn Braam
418 I'm a Teapot@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...
Samæ@chainik @martijnbraam
And second thought, more meta, is that collaboration takes work and effort, but provides long term benefits in my experience.
Shifting to a world where application developers need to care less about collaborating (eyes to Chromium for example) is maybe great for the short term (read this as great for prototyping ideas quickly), but just not that great for the longer term (space efficiency, security issues, bug fixing). Free software at least should be a common ownership to all.
Personally, I look to nix as a good way forward for dealing with this divide between "all for devs", or "all for the community". Dependencies will be shared automatically between packages without any involvement of the packager person.
And second thought, more meta, is that collaboration takes work and effort, but provides long term benefits in my experience.
Shifting to a world where application developers need to care less about collaborating (eyes to Chromium for example) is maybe great for the short term (read this as great for prototyping ideas quickly), but just not that great for the longer term (space efficiency, security issues, bug fixing). Free software at least should be a common ownership to all.
Personally, I look to nix as a good way forward for dealing with this divide between "all for devs", or "all for the community". Dependencies will be shared automatically between packages without any involvement of the packager person.