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by dnlrn 3903 days ago
The problem with LSB is that no application used it, because not every distro supports it. I hope that xdg-app application containerization[1] will change that and make it finally possible to write an application that targets all distributions. Well, all distributions that implement xdg-app ;).

[1]: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps
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bkor 3903 days ago
Suggest to just ask various distributions nicely if they could package xdg-app. Especially the ones that you target and/or use frequently. I quite like the idea behind xdg-app and I've packaged xdg-app for Mageia Cauldron (think Fedora rawhide). As I did that only yesterday I don't know if it works. But next stable release of Mageia will have it.

http://pkgs.org/search/xdg-app

Apparently only available on Fedora, openSUSE and Mageia at the moment.

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