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Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by srcthr on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:06PM (#36623819)
This model destroys any reason for software to be open source. What's the point of having source code if you just run the binary provided by some party?

Reminds me of the early days of the tensorflow where everyone used whatever binary package worked an no one could run anyone else's code because people kept getting stale binaries somewhere in the stack.

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Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by jcastro on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:21PM (#36624019)
The packaging format doesn't change source code availability or restrictions.
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Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by goodpoint on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:42PM (#36624268)
On a practical level it's completely different.
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Re:Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote Debs (Apparen... by eichin on Thursday July 06, 2023 @07:12PM (#36624606)
What's the snap equivalent of "apt-get source"? Failing to find that meant for me, it was time to start purging snapd from new installs entirely (and to start fretting about ubuntu starting to be philosophically incompatible with what I want out of a system.) Fortunately even with 23.04 (server) that still seems to leave an entirely working system.
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