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    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    As far as I'm concerned Flatpak has won the "universal Linux package manager" war.

    Snap is a non-starter because of its proprietary back end, appimage has no distribution or automation built in. Flatpak has its faults (why does it put things in /var of all places?) but it's the best I've seen.

    I'd like to add: I think it's won not by being the best, but being the least worst. I would like to invite whoever came up with that com.flatpak.FlatPak bullshit to consider a career more suited to their skill set than computer programming, such as vagrancy.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I thought the com.flatpak.Appname came from Android, so I guess google is to blame?

    /var is really annoying, especially when partitioning, previously I could just have a /var partition, but now I need to do /var/log specifically

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean doesn't that come from Java naming conventions? Which then makes sense that it continued on Android.... but Why did it end up on FlatPack!?

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    I will speculate to say that maybe someone looked at the java/android way and thought let's just copy that.

    It's the most plausible answer I can think of, without doing any research whatsoever

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It's a nice way to get around naming collisions.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Well yeah that's true

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Holy shit the end (skull emoji)