Comment by a022311
11 days ago
I agree. I've seen quite a few AUR packages built that way and I'm using a few myself too. The end user shouldn't be expected to do this though! :D
11 days ago
I agree. I've seen quite a few AUR packages built that way and I'm using a few myself too. The end user shouldn't be expected to do this though! :D
I agree with you as well! I don't think AppImage is perfect by any means. I do prefer it overall to the other commonly mentioned "universal" package tools like snap and flatpak, but I think my ideal system would essentially be a middleware protocol between build tool "frontends" and package format "backends" and then an ecosystem of tooling around that. LLVM and LSP haven't magically solved every issue with compilers and editor support for languages by any means, but they have significantly moved the needle on the average experience for quite a large number of end users even if they never directly touch any of the underlying protocols.