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wares: a distro-agnostic AppImage/binary package manager (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/programming@beehaw.org
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wares was inspired by Obtainium and pkgit.

wares is available on GitHub. Looking for anyone willing to test, provide feedback, or even contribute

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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

What is the use case and which problems that supposed to solve?

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 4 months ago

    I explained this on a now-removed post to r/unixporn: Instead of using you distro’s packages and having to trust both the developers of the project and the people packaging it, wares cuts out the middleman and fetches compiled binaries directly from the GitHub repo, compiled by the developers or their CI/CD system, meaning you only have to trust one party rather than two. It also allows you to get updates for programs as soon as they release

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    • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    I feel like there's an xkcd for this situation.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    what precisely about this do you consider insecure? do you understand how appimage works?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    oh no! and none of that really matters to this person they just wanted an easy way to manage shit.

    and I also develop software. lack of sandboxing is hardly a deal breaker. its just something you manage and if you care you ensure stuff is properly boxed.

    appimage does have tools that are capable of sandboxing quite effectively and automatically.

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