[reikonomusha]

Packaging software for Linux users is a nightmare. Unless

- your program is extraordinarily simple

- you can manage to statically link libc

- you can ship (or statically link) all .so files

- you can ensure your app can run in a sandbox

- you limit the distros you build for

- your app can be built by whatever is on flathub

etc., most solutions to shipping software simply don't work out-of-the-box. Despite the kernel being reasonably stable, userspace APIs are a mess of incompatible.

[zackb]

This is a great point, and you are right. However, using cpack+cmake makes the packaging pretty easy, gets the dependencies right for you. The problem is in dealing with all the package various manager repos.