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1. Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@niu.moe)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 16:47:51 EDT Wolf480pl

   I always felt like snappy/flatpak/appimage were stupid ideas, but didn't exactly know why.

   Then someone wrote this article

   http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/

   and suddenly it all makes sense.

   1. notklaatu (klaatu@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 22-Jun-2018 20:14:18 EDT notklaatu

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      @Wolf480pl The thing this article doesn't address is what a user is meant to do when $application hasn't been packaged for their distro or for Linux. Not all users know how to compile and package.

      I think upstream deserves a reasonable packaging method for Linux. I'm happy to encourage my users to opt for package manager FIRST and AppImage second, but I'm not OK with "outside" developers not knowing how to deliver to Linux because we have no universal format to provide.