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by freeone3000 1906 days ago
How does flatpack solve these issues in a way a PPA doesn't?
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Project you want needs libA>2, your system provides libA=2. For reasons unrelated to the system itself they can't be installed together as proper packages. PPA may be able to solve it with vendoring, but it's a pain and distro-specific. Flatpak does not have this issue by design.
PPA is still distro-specific and distro-version-specific.