New releases for bugfixes

[Reindl Harald]

Am 08.09.22 um 22:24 schrieb samuel ammonius:
>  > 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
> 
> I didn't mean a background update. I meant the user could get a dialog or
> notification asking them to update, and if they press "yes" they can 
> enter their
> root password and the app can update itself and restart.

and you marry upstream binaries with the distribution update-manager how?

>  > and for each distribution with different dependencies and libraries
> 
> How does KDE have different dependencies for different distros? (To be 
> honest
> though, I only mentioned this method because I thought having multiple 
> options
> would advertise the idea in the second method)

in the way that distributions have different library versions

>> if you don't care for security
> 
> The security risk is very small, and it can be fixed in a lot of 
> different ways. The
> app could create a folder that only root can access within the /tmp 
> folder. If even
> that's not secure enough, the app could create source files with just
> "#define MAIN_CPP_SOURCE" and compile with "-DMAIN_CPP_SOURCE=[the
> source code] so that it never has to be stored on the disk before being 
> compiled.

bla

>  > which distribution installs a compiler by default so that one can avoid
>  > touching it?
> 
> I don't think I've ever used one that /doesn't/ come with at least gcc 
> installed

i didn't see a defualt install for a long time but have a compiler on 
99,9% of all systems is useless bloatware

> I've tried Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE. Now that I think about 
> it though,
> they don't come with g++ installed, and they definitely don't come with 
> Qt headers
> installed, but they don't take that much space
more space than some of my systems at a whole

> It didn't take me 10 minutes to answer these questions in my head, so I 
> don't
> see why you're trying to scrap the idea so quickly for its faults 
> instead of trying
> to fix them. A bit of constructive criticism would be nice

a little bit of more realistic view for such nosense would be nice too

if anything you propose would become real i had to switch away from KDE