From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 00:24:27 -0500, Paul wrote:   
      
   > The .deb scheme works fine. It does not need another layer of   
   > nonsense on top of it.   
      
   It does not. Not for open-source software, anyway. App developers   
   don’t have to concern themselves with packaging: they just release the   
   source, along with the relevant build scripts, and leave it up to the   
   distro maintainers to create the actual packages. This way, a single   
   app can support a thousand different distros, and a single distro can   
   support a thousand different apps, and everything scales nicely.   
      
   > It's just a make work project.   
      
   But remember why these whole snapimage/flap/apppak things were   
   invented: they are oriented towards appeasing developers of   
   *proprietary* apps. These are the people who don’t want to release   
   their source code. So they moan about having to support a thousand   
   different distros, as though it’s the fault of the Linx ecosystem that   
   it’s so diverse. These monolithic adjuncts to the distro-specific   
   packaging systems -- a parallel package universe, if you will -- are   
   specifically designed to take control away from the users and the   
   distro maintainers, and put it in the hands of those proprietary   
   developers.   
      
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