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[–] yhsvghnrOruGnpverzN 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Last June, Canonical Software launched the development of Snap packages, which are intended to work on any Linux distribution. A week later, Red Hat announced its own version of universal packages, called Flatpak.

Fucking Red Hat. "Not made here, we gotta make our own!" Also:

https://xkcd.com/927/

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[–] jinbnters 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

All this snap and flatpak stuff is bullshit. All its going to do is:

  • Make poorly designed propriety software that couldn't be delivered any other way easier, more common, and an acceptable approach if there's an easy to use 'solution'
  • Create the same static library, each program bundling its own version, bloated and insecure approach as Windows

If it can't go in the repos or get upstreamed, its probably shit

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[–] bikergang_accountant 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago  (edited ago)

There once was a universal package. It was called ./configure make install.
But that was too complicated and people wanted to use new tools that would make compiling less uniform.
There once was a universal package. It was called debian.
But then redhat needed to make there own so now we have more than one system and it's no longer universal.

If you want universal packages and you want to make things easy on future attempts at universality such as docker, get your shit as close to universal at the lower level. I don't care if it isn't c. If you make your software can ./configure make make install I immediately have huge respect for you.