New releases for bugfixes

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Sep 8 20:00:26 BST 2022



Am 08.09.22 um 20:50 schrieb samuel ammonius:
> Bug fixes don't change the entire package, only the executable, so
> why can't apps just be programmed to update themselves? 

because outside the windows world central package management is the norm 
and based on "least privileges" applications must not have the 
permissions to change itself

> could be precompiled binaries stored on the git repos of each project
> for a few CPU architectures

and for each distribution with different depencdencies and libraries

> or maybe the app could even recompile
> itself inside /tmp 

if you don't care for security

> since most systems KDE runs on come with a compiler
> by default

which distribution installs a compiler by default so that one can avoid 
touching it?



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