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by felixguendling 2205 days ago
I don't think that the main purpose of AppImage and containers is to hide technical debt. Being able to package an application 1x to run on many Linux distributions is a huge plus - notably if you don't want to waste resources supporting Ubuntu, RHEL, Gentoo, Arch, etc. by maintaing a separate package for each and every Linux package manager out there.

The same is true for Docker: having a consistent environment is just very useful.
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Avamander 2205 days ago
> I don't think that the main purpose of AppImage and containers is to hide technical debt.

It might not be the main advertised purpose, but it's the result. Why bother updating some dependency when you can simply not? It makes sense not to, things could break.

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AnIdiotOnTheNet 2205 days ago
> Why bother updating some dependency when you can simply not?

[derp]

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Avamander 2204 days ago
You just repeated what I said. I answered that question.
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AnIdiotOnTheNet 2204 days ago
You're right, my bad. However, I think "things could break" is ultimately a worse evil than "it might have vulnerabilities". This seems to be the main point of disagreement.
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