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    Snap out of it (lemmy.zip)
    submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    How do you guys get software that is not in your distribution's repositories?

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    [–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)
    1. Compile from source
    2. Find alternative
    3. Deploy in VM/Docker

    If I wanted snap, flatpak or appimages, I would use windows. Shared dependencies or death.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

    Flatpaks and snaps both have shared dependencies, just at a less granular level than debs. OCI images and VMs are pretty much the extreme opposite of shared dependencies.

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    Shared dependencies or death
    Docker

    🤔

    [–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago

    I don't like middle grounds in my packages, what can I say.

    Docker containers are treated as immutable and disposable to me, like a boot CD, for each, I write a shell script to generate both a .conf if needed, a docker-compose.yml and run the container.

    They're plug'n'play separate parts to the rest of the OS, while packages are about integrating nicely with the rest of the OS, in a non-snowflakey, non-disruptive manner.

    I also hate .conf.d folders and always deleted them. One program, one .conf.

    [–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    But snaps do have shared dependencies to a degree. Also, do you use gentoo?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

    No, that's not what is meant by shared dependencies, and I don't use Gentoo, I use Debian.