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Comment by Imustaskforhelp

3 days ago

Hey man, I was seeing your comments and you do seem to respond to each and everyone nicely regarding this sudo shenanigan.

I think that you have removed sudo so this is nice, my suggestion is pretty similar to that of pxc (basically determine different distros and use them as that)

I wonder if we will ever get a working universal package manager in linux, to me flatpak genuinely makes the most sense even sometimes for cli but flatpak isn't built for cli unlike snap which both support cli and gui but snap is proprietory.

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danielhanchen  3 days ago

Hey :) I love suggestions and keep them coming! :)

I agree on handling different distros - sadly I'm not familiar with others, so any help would be appreciated! For now I'm most familiar with apt-get, but would 100% want to expand out!

Interesting will check flatpak out!

  • Imustaskforhelp  3 days ago

    Just to let you know though that its really rare that flatpak is used for cli's. I think I mentioned it in my comment too or if not, my apologies but flatpak is used mostly in gui's.

    I doubt its efficacy here, they might be more useful if you provide a whole jupyter / browser gui though but a lot o f us run it just in cli so I doubt flatpak.

    I didn't mean to say that flatpak was the right tool for this job, I seriously don't know too much to comment and so I'd prefer if you could ask someone definitely experienced regarding it.

    My reasoning for flatpak was chunking support (that I think is rare in appimage) and easier gpu integration (I think) compared to docker, though my reasoning might be flawed since flatpak isn't mostly used with cli.