this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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Yes. I do have some applications installed as flatpak. What's the problem?
That's the whole problem, don't use flatpak. It's the worst way of solving a problem that's already solved.
I just feel like you could have provided alternatives? How is it solved? Genuine question..
@lambda @BeigeAgenda
Imo a better alternative to flatpak is the nix package manager, but as I said to the other guy this'll most likely end up a VHS/betamax situation.
Both things are trying to solve dependency hell in different ways. Flatpak just builds and runs everything in a container, where as nix sets up virtual environments and builds things in isolation with per package dependency trees in an effort to make builds entirely reproducible (to the point that no matter what system you compile on, you will get the same hash).
Edit: as the other guy said, just use your systems package manager unless it doesn't exist in the repo and you can't be bothered to package it yourself. It's the standard recommended method.
How does your server instance here on Lemmy show as "null" it's not even a URL??
@lambda it's not a Lemmy server, it's a mastodon server. I assume it has something to do with that.
Oh, I didn't know they are intercompatible..