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Eh, it's a step forward, I wouldn't call it a great one. A great step forward would be to remove all this complicated runtime garbage and keep things simple. GNUStep App Bundles, ROX AppDirs, and AppImage are much better ideas, if you ask me, and the wide adoption of one of those would be a great step forward.

I go back and forth on this one.

On one hand I think it would make things much simpler for users who have enough storage and bandwidth.

On the other, when there is a vulnerability in a major library we would have to wait for every application to be updated, if they're even being maintained.

The thing is that package managers have mostly abstracted away the headaches of dependency hell, but have also raised the barrier to entry, so any software not participating seems suspect.

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AnIdiotOnTheNet7y ago

> On the other, when there is a vulnerability in a major library we would have to wait for every application to be updated, if they're even being maintained.

Yes, that's a drawback, but how often is there a major library that shouldn't be part of the set of libraries included as part of the base OS install? And for the ones that aren't, if the vendor chooses not to update at least you have the option of continuing to use, or not, the older version on your own terms instead of having it broken by the package manager when a dependant library is swapped out from under it.

We live with this sort of thing every day in real world business and it honestly hasn't been a big deal.

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