[kwlug-disc] Presentation requests: package formats, repository best practices

Federer Fanatic nafdef at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 11:27:57 EST 2020


Some people would respond with the admonishment that these bundle packages
are not good. I would imagine
a search on the web would lead one to the complaints. I prefer the standard
packaging tools. Simply because they
have been around and one can the source package (for debs at least, not
sure about .rpm, or arch packages?)

FF



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On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:06 AM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> Here are two things I want to know about but do not want to present:
>
> - Snaps vs AppImage vs Flatpak vs ...
> There is some discussion here:
> http://kwlug.org/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/2020-June/019413.html
> but I do not have a good sense of what I should care about, and what
> (if any) of these formats is winning, and how easy/hard it is to
> package software for them.
>
> - Repository best practices: every programming language has its own
>   repository format. Archives like Debian or Ubuntu's seem to be
>   largely obsolete.
>
>   Who is doing repositories right, in the sense that they curate good
>   software and have good governance? Who is doing it wrong? What are
>   the best practices?
>
> - Paul
>
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