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by Avamander 2212 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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> Why bother updating some dependency when you can simply not?

[derp]

You just repeated what I said. I answered that question.
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.