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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by quicklyfrozen on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:46PM (#24665053)
Even if there are easy tools available, I'd still need to learn them for each distro I want to support. Heck, just figuring out the different names each distro uses for a particular package is a fair bit of work.
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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by kevin_thibedeau on Friday October 02, 2020 @02:47PM (#24665734)
Just use Gnu Stow as a secondary package manager and install into the /usr/local tree.
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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by eikenberry on Friday October 02, 2020 @04:01PM (#24666483)
The discussion is about packaging your software for users, not yourself. Stow is a solution for managing non-packages software on your personal system, not for distributing it.
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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by waheoo on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @11:24PM (#24715368)
Most people don't package their software for distros.

Smart distros keep things close to upstream so the burden is small.

This is a weird argument.

Now you want each developer to manage dependency updates for their application? I don't trust them to develop their own app let alone apply security patches properly.

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