once the package creation scripts are made it's not really that bad
and debian is by far the most common base for linux installations, the need for snap and flatpak and appimages has failed to materialise
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We also have Nostr-native packing solutions. I'd probably prioritize those, since that's where the beta-testers will be.
You all must be living in a bit of Linux bubble. I try to stay updated on the entire family tree and distrohop to stay apprised on the latest developments.
Flatpaks and snaps are highly used on a daily basis now by the majority of distros when their repositories are out of date, or do not have what they need. Many large companies would now rather package up once and ship everywhere. Than to deal with one Linux distros package management process over the other and miss out on valuable market share opportunities.
Just use logic and reasoning on this one.
Would you rather use flatpaks, appimages, or snaps and be able to have an unlimited audience.
Versus using deb packages, signing up for inevitable dependency hell headaches (guaranteed), and only ever having a medium size audience.
If anything, after deb packaging, I believe we’ll do rpm for the Red Hat and Fedora distros.
Ah. I use that at work, for installations on the testserver.
Ah very well. Your server must be running a Red Hat Linux.
I was wondering why they were using it. That explains it, thanks.
it could be opensuse also, that uses rpm too
iirc, opensuse is a german distro, or at least it's european, debian is american
It is german !
as i understand it, quite widely used by german companies
basically nobody else in the world uses it... it also has a slightly different tool called "zypper" iirc, that does something like apt for deb packages as zypper is for rpm, similarly there is dpkg and then there is rpm
i might be misremembering, i ran opensuse for a little while
i approve of this policy... i avoid using snaps or flatpaks as much as possible because they tend to be bugging, still, with their isolation and being able to access my home directory
Tried to install a flatpak on Saturday, but it was like 15 steps and in the end it didn't work, so I installed something else with apt.