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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