<div dir="ltr">Some people would respond with the admonishment that these bundle packages are not good. I would imagine<div>a search on the web would lead one to the complaints. I prefer the standard packaging tools. Simply because they</div><div>have been around and one can the source package (for debs at least, not sure about .rpm, or arch packages?)</div><div><br></div><div>FF<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br><br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br> Roger Federer Fanatic Extraordinaire :-)</div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:06 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Here are two things I want to know about but do not want to present:<br>
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- Snaps vs AppImage vs Flatpak vs ...<br>
There is some discussion here:<br>
<a href="http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/2020-June/019413.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/2020-June/019413.html</a><br>
but I do not have a good sense of what I should care about, and what<br>
(if any) of these formats is winning, and how easy/hard it is to<br>
package software for them.<br>
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- Repository best practices: every programming language has its own<br>
repository format. Archives like Debian or Ubuntu's seem to be<br>
largely obsolete. <br>
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Who is doing repositories right, in the sense that they curate good<br>
software and have good governance? Who is doing it wrong? What are<br>
the best practices?<br>
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- Paul<br>
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