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Re:Nix: An idea whose time has come by smoldesu on Saturday February 19, 2022 @09:19AM (#30397290)
So now we're blaming developers for messing up with sandboxed systems? I really hope this isn't the rhetoric you use to convince people to start packaging with Flatpak...
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Re:Nix: An idea whose time has come by 3np on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:18AM (#30425279)
You're the only one assigning blame to anyone here. Not all problems need a villain.

Both of these things can be true at the same time: The library authors ultimately messed it up and could have prevented it by reading documentation better. Flatpak has a footgun and could have prevented it by better dev UX and/or structuring docs differently.

Hopefully this incident is leading to improvements in both.

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