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by digi_owl 3084 days ago
And then there is the whole dependencies shitstorm, were far too many upstreams have a bad habit of breaking APIs etc as they see fit.

There are ways to work around it, but it gets messy quickly. And rather than clean up their act they start championing things like Flatpak, that is basically a throwback to the DOS days of everything living in their own folder tree with a bit of souped up chroot thrown on top.

I really expect that if the likes of flatpak becomes mainstream in the Linux world having some flaw being found in a lib somewhere will produce a stampede of updates because every damn project crammed in a copy to make sure it was present.