Linux Packaging Formats: Deb, RPM, Flatpak, Snap & AppImage
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Tutorial on how Linux applications are installed using the packaging formats Deb, RPM, Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, and their associated package managers. Includ...

That is, instead of resorting to flatpaks and things of the like, why don’t we expose a way for libraries to express version information dynamically and just have those versions available and the dependant application can check if what it needs is available and just use that?

  • CallMeAl (like Alan)@piefed.zipEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    That is, instead of resorting to flatpaks and things of the like, why don’t we expose a way for libraries to express version information dynamically and just have those versions available and the dependant application can check if what it needs is available and just use that?

    Isn’t that how a LIBRARY_PATH works?