Kettle :~)
Kettle :~)
The reality is, you have three options for each piece of software needed: - not have it (not ideal) - make one yourself - find a way to work with...
AppImages use the same bundle concept, only they are in one file that gets mounted as a disk instead of a folder.
So in response to your comment, yeah, that's the idea.
Unfortunately, many apps don't respond well to being put in bundles, or AppImages, because they use hard-coded paths and stuff. Also, probono made AppImage, so if that was the canonical...
We maybe could use a chroot sandbox, that way the apps are effectively installed but in a folder you can move anywhere, and we could have some "common" filesystems containing...
I'd like to know more about these 'non-root chroots'
> In general, the build script/makefile has to specifically target a Bundle. Yes and no. It's relatively simple to bundle most autotools or cmake based packages. Firefox is little short...
> If the goal is just to figure out the delta in packages from "pristine install" then yes, running something like pkg install --dry-run or pkg info -d could give...
> That's certainly one way of doing it, albeit a high-overhead one (every installed, "historically grown" helloSystem installation would need to keep a pristine helloSystem image around just for the...
Then maybe we could make a graphical frontend for pkg... ...like the AppShop was going to be ;~)