Martijn Braam
j0 migrated back to WDW@martijnbraam why not replace flatpak with nix? :)
@j0 you don't have to replace anything. As long as you don't write software that is hardcoded to one platform it can be packaged anywhere :)
I gladly take bug reports from Nix users, they have made several of my codebases a lot better
@martijnbraam i mean why cant nix replace flatpak as the cross-distro packaging standard :) it has a great community already packaging most software and nix could be a part of a lot of distro's immutability (silverblue, vanillaos, whatever ubuntus doing, etc)
@j0 or instead of trying to replace everything with $singlething just let distro maintainers do their job?
@martijnbraam yeah thats fair :p
im coming at it with the angle of "this would be so much better for this purpose!" but im not sure if flatpaks solve a problem that needs solving?
im coming at it with the angle of "this would be so much better for this purpose!" but im not sure if flatpaks solve a problem that needs solving?
Reto@martijnbraam @j0 I mean, that'd be nice except that this means you need to limit yourself to stuff from +5 years or so as you'd need to cater to Debian stable or even oldstable.
And that's nuts, considering that I want to use the nice apis in the newer version of libraries
And that's nuts, considering that I want to use the nice apis in the newer version of libraries
@martijnbraam @j0 sure, but then you end up with people opening bugs for very old versions of my stuff, bugs which may already have been fixed in later versions.
And that's not just theory, plenty of cases where this happens so much that the devs told Debian to pull the package from their repo or simply autoclose bugs from Debian users unless it's the latest
And that's not just theory, plenty of cases where this happens so much that the devs told Debian to pull the package from their repo or simply autoclose bugs from Debian users unless it's the latest