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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by ChickeNES on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:18PM (#22023116)
I wish NeXTsteps's app bundles had caught on outside of OSX.
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by hoistbypetard on Saturday January 11, 2020 @08:03PM (#22023646)
Me too. Especially as combined with fat binaries in the OS X rosetta years. It'd make it a lot easier to package something that would run on arm, arm64 and amd64 in a more accessible way for users.
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by stock_toaster on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:46AM (#22025838)
AppImage[1] kind of works that way. I'm surprised it hasn't caught on more, tbh. I don't think it supports multiple architectures like app bundles can (fat bundles) though.

[1]: https://appimage.org

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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by lokedhs on Sunday January 12, 2020 @07:26AM (#22025970)
One of my applications is distributed through Appimage. It works really well.

I really feel it should support containerisation in a similar way as Flatpak does. In my opinion, the idea that any application on your system can can touch all your files and access all your other applications is really problematic. You're always just one broken (intentionally or not) application form having your entire system compromised.

As best as I can tell, the only solutions that even tries to address this is Qubes OS and Flatpak.

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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by pjmlp on Sunday January 12, 2020 @12:20PM (#22027492)
On Windows they are called xcopy install, and they have also caught on mobile OSes.
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