Appimage for me ticks all the boxes for cross distro package as its very portable, simple to run, what are devs trying to do when creating snaps and flatpack?

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago
    • ruins single source of truth over installed state
    • thus kills validation and thus consistency and thus repeatability (the holy trifecta of release management)
    • promotes dependency hell
    • promotes redundant installs
    • ‘hides’ installs from enterprise management (eg snmp)
    • you will fail the audit

    But other than being redundant and risky, totally cool.