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Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault. (lemmy.world)

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

I just distribute it as a self-contained executable/archive. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Valid solution, but I miss unified updates with appimages and such

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[-] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 7 points 1 month ago

As long as your application is statically linked, I don't see any issue with that.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

So, like, dumb question. People here assumed that I mean AppImages, whereas I actually meant just a statically linked binary. Is that really the only reason why AppImage exists? So, that dynamically linked applications can be distributed like statically linked ones?

[-] ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago

You cannot statically link everything. Take graphics libraries and APIs for example, do you statically link against nvidia's or mesa's opengl?

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[-] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 6 points 1 month ago

The majority of AppImages I've seen have been dynamically linked, yes. But it's also used for packaging assets.

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[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

https://openbuildservice.org/

[-] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Nix: you package it yourself and do a pull request

Sadly, many flatpaks don't even work on NixOS properly because of assumptions about the file structure or similar

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