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   Account: Computers (pro@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 05:27:40 JST Account: Computers
   Riddle me this: what is the point of Flatpak if the images have dependencies? It's no different from an RPM! So why?
   
   At least when an AppImage is distributed, you just run the image and you get a running application. The container image contains everything. But Flatpak does not!
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 05:27:38 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @pro
     > At least when an AppImage is distributed, you just run the image and you get a running application.
     
     Heh, that depends on how well built the AppImage is (it's just a self-mounting+executing archive after all), like here a lot of them failed on me due to lack of dbus libraries.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 06:41:50 JST Phantasm

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     @pro Distro-agnostic packages. The images have other flatpak dependencies, because if they didn't, you would have 20 installations of the same GNOME/KDE platform installed on your system.
     
     PS: The sandbox aspect of Flatpak is a meme.