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1. Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Oct-2018 15:06:40 EDT Ted Gould

   @federicomena while I think that it is a great idea to give application writers a direct path to users, I think that's an ideal that the next gen packaging formats are having trouble realizing.

   Unless the applications are maintaining the packaging as part of their normal release and development process, you're effectively introducing a new set of distro packagers in the middle.

   1. Stuart Langridge (sil@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Oct-2018 16:00:03 EDT Stuart Langridge

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      @ted @federicomena yeah. It'd be good to see more upstreams publishing a snap rather than a tar.gz file with a readme, or just telling people to clone github master. It's good that the teams at flatpak and snappy are sending patches upstream to help people do that; hopefully eventually it'll become normalised (and so users will start saying "where's your snap" rather than "oh you've got a snap/flatpak/etc").