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wth, that was really annoying (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Background-Story: I did a "flatpak update" on a remote client and every package wants the PW for downloading and for installing again. I had to enter the password like 30 times or more.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Maybe I’m talking out my ass, but it seems to be something devs like because it makes their life easier.

Flatpak/snaps are always a hard miss for me as a user, unless there’s no other option.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

For users it can mean a lot better app availability since not every distro has enough maintainers to have timely updates for all their repo packages and the maintainer obviously doesn't want to maintain it for every single distro. Less work for maintainers/devs all around, with the benefit of better app availability to the user.

[–] taladar 1 points 5 months ago

it seems to be something devs like because it makes their life easier.

It seems to be something some devs like because they get annoyed when distro maintainers point out problems in their software or implement workarounds for those issues.