I did not write anything about flatpak ...
but if you want to provoke me to it: yes, also a plague. Why? Because it
clutters up the system - in other words, it consumes endless memory. And
because the integration of these container formats into the desktop is
sometimes miserable: e.g.: open with - from the file manager etc. usually does
not work - at least the last time I dealt with such things.
So I prefer the native packages of the distribution. My statement referred to
Patrick's comment, which is *correct in principle*, but brings the described
imponderables with it. And that's all I wanted to point out, that can't be
denied, I've seen that several times both here on the mailing list and on IRC.
In times of darktable 1.4 etc. I had used the PPA of Pacal de Bruijn, at that
time it was clear to every user that he had to install the darktable binary
*incl.* all of the dependencies offered there.
And exactly *this hint* is missing today - that's how I perceive the problem.
Will say: don't install the darktable.deb only (which worked fine for 2 years
now), but install the repo - if you want to use 3.8 ...
Mica Semrick schrieb am 04.02.22 um 19:15:
So: the choice between plague and Colera
So the "batteries included" flatpak is a disease, and the distro *you* choose
to run is also a disease.
There is no pleasing people.
On February 4, 2022 8:23:38 AM PST, Bernhard <darkta...@intervalsignals.org>
wrote:
Mica Semrick schrieb am 04.02.22 um 16:30:
Your system is your responsibility. The project publishes the source code, and
that's pretty much it. We can't make assumptions about what packages your
distro has or does not have. There are too many distros and too many package
versions.
If you want a mostly pain-free solution, get the flatpak from flathub.
Patrick Shanahan schrieb am 04.02.22 um 16:41:
or utilize the ready made package your distro provides.
which immediately causes further problems:
In many cases, old versions can be found there, because not everyone goes
through the hassle of a rolling release distribution. And on a question e.g.
here or in a forum then the answer comes prayer mill-like: But THAT is an old
version, get a new one, then you can ask again.
So: the choice between plague and Colera
No question, I understand why developers especially in the open source area
argue and work exactly like this: it is simply impossible to test every program
version against every operating system version, especially for backwards
compatibility.
The problem then has the user - and I understand this as follows: how can we
point out the user with such a foreseeable problem (this exiv2 is just brand
new, and because that is so, it is also in the OBS repo as described above)
more specifically than is the case so far?
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