Background-Story: I did a “flatpak update” on a remote client and every package wants the PW for downloading and for installing again. I had to enter the password like 30 times or more.

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    where they make sure it works and they officially support it

    Citation needed

    completely stop caring about other formats and community packages.

    That seems to be the case every time developers package software in any way. Sometimes even if they don’t package it at all.

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      8 months ago

      I’ll try to reword it so it’s clearer what I meant: I think developers shouldn’t have to maintain more than one package format, and I think flatpak is the best format to be the one supported by the developer officially. Many developers officially support only .deb for example.