Upstream images vs bazzite: https://github.com/ublue-os/countme/blob/main/growth_upstream_with_bazzite.svg

My prediction: bazzite may have more installs than Fedora KDE by the end of the year.

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[–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It is 100% possible and people have been doing it for years. If the package is broken the final product is never built, it's impossible to ship it to the end user since it's one whole complete image.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    I am afraid we are talking about different things. Recently I had to report a broken package to a repository. The problem was that they mapped a path to the incorrect directory.

    The software compiled and worked correctly, but some specific functionality which needed to read data from that directory was broken.

    I do not think there is a way to prevent this kind of errors.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    In normal repos they also test their packages. I do not think it is possible in any distribution repo to ship a binary which did not compile. Dynamic library linking may have some problems I guess, but unless you're using arch that is generally never a real problem with package manager installations. I have never got a package which plain does not run.

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