• JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Please don’t. I like having options, sometimes RPMs are useful, sometimes Flatpaks are useful. Let me choose.

    • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Using RPMs through a frontend like Discover or Gnome Software can sometimes have unintended side effects that are much more easily anticipated when using dnf.

      Just the other day, I uninstalled something through Gnome Software that was an RPM, and it also removed fuse-fs packages, breaking all of my appimage stuff until I manually installed fuse again.

      This doesn’t ever happen with Flatpak in my experience, though I could just be lucky. It makes some sense to limit the destruction potential for less technical frontend installers like Gnome Software and leave the RPMs to something else like dnf. Though, I do really enjoy being able to open a manually downloaded RPM in a nice GUI to install it.

      • warmaster@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        This. Arch based distros have understood this a long time ago, most ship with no GUI for their package managers and if they ship with one they throw you to a terminal to solve anything, as it should be.

        I don’t want to deal with any of that, so I run Bazzite, do flatpaks only, and use Distrobox for whatever I can’t find on the homebrew package manager.

      • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Exactly this. Kde’s graphical application store actually has a warning on arch, since pacman can be even more problematic when it comes to abstraction layers like GUI’s.

        At this point, rpm’s and deb packages can be auto updated through their relevant package managers. And it looks like gnome software is attempting to try to get user packages installed via flatpak entirely.

    • refalo@programming.dev
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      7 days ago

      Distros are still free to make their own RPM packages, they can’t go around the GPL there.

      But having official flatpak release makes it very easy to update to the latest versions regardless of your distro.

  • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    But why? It’s job is to install software, why make it worse by supporting less package formats?

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
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      6 days ago

      But why?

      Probably because having two separate dependency management solutions can lead to a lot of needless headaches.

      And it makes particular sense for Gnome to switch over, since Gnome is focused on user space apps. Flatpaks should generally be more relevant and lower risk, long term, since they don’t require root privileges to install.