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Re:Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time by ris on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @05:33PM (#17822395)
This is the only way you can prevent having seventeen different copies (and probably versions) of e.g. libQt on your system at once. And once you have different versions of a library, there's nothing that can guarantee they they will all interpret your configuration files in the same way, etcetera.

The "year of the linux desktop" has always been a red herring. Let's leave 2006 behind, shall we?

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Re:Flatpak 1.0 Released, Ready for Prime Time by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @08:26AM (#17858222)
> This is the only way you can prevent having seventeen different copies (and probably versions) of e.g. libQt on your system at once.

How many copies of the Win32 widget interface do you think exist on a Windows installation? I'll give you a clue: it's one. This is because Windows has a defined and stable base system that developers can depend on being there so they don't need to ship their own copy of things in the base system.

Linux has no base system because that would mean agreeing on something.

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