npub1e9y9sk5m7gx0hcucfll5m0fqkspjsxvkw3hlkxpn95flnyc2mj2qqn4gk4 (npub1e9y…4gk4) It's funny because it doesn't address the core problem:
There are too many package formats, and repository trees, and none is actually "The Way". That makes Linux software packaging a nightmare.
And ZIP is just literally the Windows 98 way.
You are not looking at this from the developer's perspective. Suppose, I'm a developer for Windows and Mac, and I'm often requested to to make a Linux version of my app. Except... I can't. Because there's no "linux" way of doing this. There's "DEB package" (of Debian OR Ubuntu variety, they are not always compatible), there's "RPM package", there's "PKG package"... Well, I'm NOT going to read into all this just to maybe target the 3% of desktop users. Or maybe I'll just release for Ubuntu, because I heard Ubuntu is kinda popular.
We're in the situation where *some standard* is literally infinitely better than *no standard*, because the lack of standard is what's holding us back.
Dr. Quadragon ❌ /
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2023-12-19 18:02:04
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