Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
by account42 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @08:59AM
(#35371953)
> glibc breaks regularly, as does mesa occasionally
Neither of this is true.
> And there is a lot of more obscure examples: fontconfig e.g. at some point changed their config file format in a not backwards compatible way, and now some Steam games crash on startup because the developers earlier vendored it to get around its ABI breaking repeatedly.
Bundling fontconfig but not it's internal config is retarded, yes. Really, games have no business looking at system fonts at all.
Re:Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
by creshal on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:59PM
(#35377420)
Calling everyone except yourself too retarded to figure out compiling Linux software is not a productive discussion. And glibc/mesa related breakages are well documented, if you care.
Neither of this is true.
> And there is a lot of more obscure examples: fontconfig e.g. at some point changed their config file format in a not backwards compatible way, and now some Steam games crash on startup because the developers earlier vendored it to get around its ABI breaking repeatedly.
Bundling fontconfig but not it's internal config is retarded, yes. Really, games have no business looking at system fonts at all.