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   christian mock (cm@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 07:47:51 JST christian mock

   Today I had the need to use one of those new-fangled "snap" packages that I've managed to avoid so far. Well, now I have the need to bang my head into the wall -- because it didn't fail because of that thing not checking whether SElinux is even enabled, not because it expects a specific DBus configuration nothing else ever needed, but because IT CANNOT COPE WITH MY HOME DIR NOT BEING UNDER /home.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 07:47:50 JST silverwizard

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     @cm That's a new one, but I don't use snaps
     
     Holy crap, that's a bad failure mode
     
     Snap so much seems like package management *by* people who don't want to manage packages
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 07:59:05 JST silverwizard

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     • silverwizard
     @cm Yeah, I get it, but I don't understand the sense of anti-packaging people have developed
     
     Rather than one working system with a few older pieces, lots of broken systems rattling along
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     christian mock (cm@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 07:59:06 JST christian mock

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     • silverwizard

     @silverwizard It seems like kiddos who want to use all the newest shiniest features and completely ignore the booooring stuff like /home. Also, that "now you have n+1 standards" xkcd. But, alas, I'd rather not compile a bleeding edge FreeCAD branch if I can avoid it, and I have a model that's broken in the builds I have...