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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (15 children)

@tet its great because you can listen to people whine about it now instead of systemd

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (11 children)

The two whines are not mutually exclusive. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

@kingmongoose7877 until someone tells me another way to run 2 python apps one which requires python 2 and one which requires python 3, on the same system, which is EASIER than installing a flatpak, im gonna maintain that they have a use case, even if they aren't idealized package management as we dreamed of

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Easy, tiger. I think you misinterpreted my original reply.

I meant the whining about the two (systemd and flatpak) isn't strictly OR but may be AND. Have a nice day.

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