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I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh)
getfresh.dev/docs/blog/packaging-for-linux/No automatic updates for .deb / .rpm
The author seems to have completely missed the point that they can just publish their own repositories to allow users on both of these platforms to update. It would also mean they could avoid the problems they’re having building source packages.
Their complaints about supporting instalations with older libc versions are also addressable by just building against the oldest libc they wish to support.
I know right? This is literally what flat pack was meant to address. Just package has push it and let any system use it. So it is a little more complicated and another step on top of everything.
To be fair, he does address why flatpak isn’t really suitable for his package in particular, as it needs to get out of the sandbix flatpak puts it in, which is hacky. None-the-less, it does feel like he’s making a mountain out of a mole hill.
Ah that’s fair yeah. It’s getting better. But without some sort of system where a flat pack can request the permissions that it needs at install or runtime. It’s far from where it should be. Trivial to do with an app like flat seal. But that’s not typically installed out of the box. It’s all command line by default and very obtuse to the average user.