On 6/5/23 09:35, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
"easily install from Flathub" brings us closer to Windows
where you
"easily" install software from random places on the Internet and they
bring their own bundled outdated versions of libraries. Flatpaks have
the added downside of not integrating well with the OS on top of the
bloat they bring. No, thank you. I'd rather have proper well-integrated
RPMs installed from official distro repos.
Unfortunately very few people still understand the value of using
system libraries instead of bundling one hundred of them in each package.
The day a zlib vulnerability is discovered, instead of just updating
a 50k lib rpm (and restart apps, or maybe reboot), you have to update
30 apps, each of them sized at 50MB, and including possibly badly patched
versions of the lib etc. (good luck knowing which app is affected,
when the fix will be available, ...).
There is a disturbing trend to bundling everything, which comes from
environments with no shared libraries (Android) or from languages
that do not do dynamic linking (golang).
Whatever is not in a rule-conforming rpm, is not correctly packaged,
in my opinion.
Regards.
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Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it