Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
by dTal on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:45AM
(#35357207)
Indeed. This seems like a tooling issue, and one that strikes me as more worthy of community attention than reinventing the package manager for the nth time.
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Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
by veeti on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:52AM
(#35357291)
Yes, and once we have the tooling to build portable .tar.gz application packages someone should come up with a tool to automatically upgrade them.
Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
by dTal on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:20AM
(#35357683)
Perhaps. Extrapolating the idea that .tar.gz application packages should be standalone, a better system than an external updater might be that the aforementioned build tooling includes an "update" script inside the .tar.gz. Then the user can run them at their own convenience. This is similar to how Firefox's updater works, except Firefox itself does double duty as the update script.