^ I've been shipping tarballs or self extracting tarballs.
All have their benefits and drawbacks. But I think the direction RedHat is moving in (more immutability) there will be a place for system packages (RPM) and self-contained user-app packages (flatpaks).
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2026-02-27 21:33:29 CET
in reply to nevent1q…unkz
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2026-02-27 21:33:29 CETEvent JSON
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