Re:Flatpak Is Not the Future
by southerntofu on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @08:42AM
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> Now that each language has their own package manager, the role of distributions have faded.
Yet most language-specific package managers are deeply flawed compared to distro package managers. But i agree with your sentiment that beyond LTS for enterprise, the deb/rpm packaging paradigm is becoming obsolete. I believe nix/guix form an interesting new paradigm for packaging where there is still a trusted third party (the nix/guix community and repo) but where packaging doesn't get in the way of app developers.
I'm especially interested in how these declarative package managers could "export" to more widely-used packaging schemes. guix can already export to .deb, but there's no reason it couldn't produce an AppImage or a flatpak.
Yet most language-specific package managers are deeply flawed compared to distro package managers. But i agree with your sentiment that beyond LTS for enterprise, the deb/rpm packaging paradigm is becoming obsolete. I believe nix/guix form an interesting new paradigm for packaging where there is still a trusted third party (the nix/guix community and repo) but where packaging doesn't get in the way of app developers.
I'm especially interested in how these declarative package managers could "export" to more widely-used packaging schemes. guix can already export to .deb, but there's no reason it couldn't produce an AppImage or a flatpak.