• Unknown1234_5@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Why do they not just ship normal packages (.deb, .rpm, etc.) or an official flatpak that functions properly?

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      1 month ago

      I think the “etc” shows how f***ed up it might be to package for every single distro. Releasing a tar with no extra bloat and letting each community doing its own things over it is probably one of the best approaches?

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        1 month ago

        But it makes finding a properly functioning official package more difficult for newer users, and really the etc. was superfluous. You only really need .deb, .rpm, and whatever arch uses. There is a flatpak, but it doesn’t work properly.