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@ariadne

I really struggle to understand the motivation for things like Flatpack. As I understand it, the train of thought is something like:

1. Shipping up-to-date software is hard.
2. When a security update in a library comes out, we need to update everything that depends on it.
3. This requires effort and is an intrinsically hard problem.
4. Let’s make it a distributed system where everyone has to do the work independently and no one gets to benefit from amortising the effort!
5. ???
6. Easy software distribution!