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1. dave (dthompson@toot.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 16-May-2018 14:37:18 UTC dave

   Guix can now produce relocatable application bundles. Unlike snap, flatpak, etc. the resulting bundles can be bit-reproducible and the user needs no additional software to run them since every distro can extract a tarball.

   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/tarballs-the-ultimate-container-image-format/

   • Xerz 💗 [UNMOVED] and marc0s repeated this.
   • Xerz 💗 [UNMOVED] (espectalll@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 16-May-2018 15:16:46 UTC Xerz 💗 [UNMOVED]

     in reply to

     @dthompson It seems to provide no isolation but it's still a neat idea

   • Xerz 💗 [UNMOVED] (espectalll@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 16-May-2018 15:17:49 UTC Xerz 💗 [UNMOVED]

     in reply to

     @dthompson ...also please don't let users just randomly extract tarballs and not get updates because that would make it even worse than AppImage.