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@HerraBRE neither, use tarballs that adhere to the FHS. Then it's super easy to use fpm to create standard distro packages from.
@HerraBRE that is, create tarballs that you can just unpack them into /usr inside the package.
@HerraBRE what do you mean be interesting dependencies?
@HerraBRE just looks like a python app to me, what's special?
@kurisu Dependencies on compiled Python libraries. And Tor. And GnuPG, ideally a specific version so I don't have to worry about the shifting API.
@HerraBRE wow, thats a heavy set of dependencies. Static compilation with musl should fix the python libraries, but hard-depending on tor and gnupg seems like more of an architectural problem and probably layering violation.
@HerraBRE developers should be creating quality packages which integrate with the rest of the system, instead of boxing themselves away and including a second copy of everything, I think.
If you've made your application so difficult to package that it'll never be included in distro repositories because it has unmanageable dependencies, that's *your* problem, and flatpak and snaps are just ways that developers push that problem on users.
If you've made your application so difficult to package that it'll never be included in distro repositories because it has unmanageable dependencies, that's *your* problem, and flatpak and snaps are just ways that developers push that problem on users.
@kurisu @HerraBRE
Which is not to say that Snap is any better...flatpak is more of a standard. I'm only saying that the flatpak experience is not yet all it's cracked up to be.