I loved Flatpak until I started building a MiniPC with a 112 GB internal disk for HTPC usage... Then I felt the pain of having to get all slightly different dependency versions for each little program I wanted.

The box' cost already topped the project's budget so no new disk for it. I'm back to "proper .deb packaging please"

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Anonyneko a day ago | parent [-]

Use cases naturally differ, but I'd much rather use more storage than hit yet another unresolvable dependency issue.

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dbdr a day ago | parent | next [-]

Nix offers the best of both worlds on this aspect: each program can depend on the exact version of a library it needs and several versions can coexist on the disk, but if two programs depend on the exact same version, it is stored only once.

	▲	bronson 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Same with Flatpak.

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skydhash a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I think projects today are too trigger happy about updating dependencies and using dependencies that are too volatile. IIRC, the task runner just couldn’t be built on debian 12 because its rust package was too “old”. Just two years have passed since the version freeze.