On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Hamish Moffatt via Interest wrote: > I have never used an AppImage in 25 years of Debian and Linux experience > either. It sounds equivalent to downloading a random unsigned .EXE from a web > site and running it.
It is, with the added complication of mixing things of incompatible licences (like GPL and OpenSSL) inside it. I’ve seen one, and I was not impressed and I will continue arguing against this practice, in favour of distro-specific packaging. bye, //mirabilos (both private-professionally as well as for $dayjob) -- Infrastrukturexperte • tarent solutions GmbH Am Dickobskreuz 10, D-53121 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Telephon +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB AG Bonn 5168 • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander Steeg **************************************************** /⁀\ The UTF-8 Ribbon ╲ ╱ Campaign against Mit dem tarent-Newsletter nichts mehr verpassen: ╳ HTML eMail! Also, https://www.tarent.de/newsletter ╱ ╲ header encryption! **************************************************** _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest