Literally nobody is using Chocolatey or MS Store. Some people use Mac App Store, but most application aren't there. Only developers use Homebrew or MacPorts. Most people download from websites.
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@moopet When there are tens of thousands of software packages in a distribution, updating a program with hundreds of dependencies becomes quite difficult, especially for non-free software. Yes, all sorts of snap and flatpak are used to solve this problem, but they completely eliminates the advantages of shared libraries, which are designed to avoid code duplication.
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@katafrakt it doesn't matter for the purposes of this whether many people use it or not, it's the only practical way for applications to behave unless (as @mariamarsh notes) we all move to statically-linked behemoths.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin.
Back in the day, I had a geekcode which I'm not going to share with you.
418 I'm a teapot.
Literally nobody is using Chocolatey or MS Store. Some people use Mac App Store, but most application aren't there. Only developers use Homebrew or MacPorts. Most people download from websites.
@moopet When there are tens of thousands of software packages in a distribution, updating a program with hundreds of dependencies becomes quite difficult, especially for non-free software. Yes, all sorts of snap and flatpak are used to solve this problem, but they completely eliminates the advantages of shared libraries, which are designed to avoid code duplication.
@katafrakt it doesn't matter for the purposes of this whether many people use it or not, it's the only practical way for applications to behave unless (as @mariamarsh notes) we all move to statically-linked behemoths.
Oh yeah, of course, if the reality does not matter, keep wondering why every application has this kind of background process.
The question is, "what's wrong with code in 2022" and the culture of downloading separate things for everything is part of that.