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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your point 1 and 2 are the same

a - app + dependencies

Which will be duplicated for everything installed application, and redownloaded for every new version. Whereas flatpak and snappy shares the dependencies between applications.

s/f - flatpak run com.very.easy.to.remember.and.type.name

Snappy makes easily run command line shortcuts. Flatpak could use some improvements there though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes.. kinda!?
First point is space requirement, second one is a design issue. They are directly connected, I'm not arguing that.