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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by modzu on Saturday December 17, 2022 @01:00PM (#34030344)
flatpak > appimage for security and updates.
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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by bombolo on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:19PM (#34032880)
Well you can statically link stuff in a flatpak… a distribution package however gets automatically rebuilt when a dependency changes, if it's statically linked.
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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by modzu on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:10PM (#34033258)
sorry, is this an argument that appimage has advantages over flatpak for security and updates? could u elaborate?
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Re:Valve Is Paying Open-Source Developers to Work on Proton,... by bombolo on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:40PM (#34033439)
No I'm saying that flatpack can be as bad as appimage because nobody checks.
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