There was never anything wrong with FSHS and the proper use of /opt. Snap and Flatpack are the result of devs that grew up on Windows and brought poor habits with them. Let's just all embrace systemd and run everything as root and say to hell with it.
There was never anything wrong with FSHS and the proper use of /opt. Snap and Flatpack are the result of devs that grew up on Windows and brought poor habits with them. Let's just all embrace systemd and run everything as root and say to hell with it.
They’re also intended to be cross distro package formats / managers. AppImage is another one.
They’re also intended to be cross distro package formats / managers. AppImage is another one.
Cross-distro packages are a bad idea as well. Per-distro packages are not hard to do, especially with CPack. The issue distills down to following the FSHS for distribution-level standard packages and proper use of /opt (or /var/opt) for "local" installations. Apps have no business in user homedirs.
Cross-distro packages are a bad idea as well. Per-distro packages are not hard to do, especially with CPack. The issue distills down to following the FSHS for distribution-level standard packages and proper use of /opt (or /var/opt) for "local" installations. Apps have no business in user homedirs.
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