On 24/01/24 14:01, Luca Boccassi wrote:
how does that work for those applications that require rust, go and friends?
Are you proposing that everything that needs them should be be distributed by a
flatpak or similar mechanism instead?
Those applications are not shipped in the distribution. If somebody
wants to use them, they'll have to figure it out, just like for
everything else that is not shipped in the distribution, which is
already a subset of all available software in the world.
The risk is that that subset will get even smaller and miss out on new
developments: Debian will then be stuck as a "C distribution" and with C
& Co becoming more and more legacy, that means that Debian will become a
"legacy distribution".
It is nice to know that, even if the paradigms are changing, one can
still apt install caddy, etcd, acmetool, influxdb, prometheus, sq,
firefox...
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Gioele Barabucci
