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  • Now this puts a question for native platform. If web technology managed to get more and more approval to get native access like Web Bluetooth, should we move apps to the web instead? We have web authn as secure hardware backed secret storage. Personally, I like it if everything is not a native app.

    The other extreme is if the native platform provides the same interoperability and standard as web. Would you prefer every complex web to be a sandboxed native app instead? Say a youtube streaming desktop app.












  • Because it adds something that is not essential, so it is not “simple”. If package A depends on package B with an incompatible license then it needs to provide a means to specify alternate packages. Arch follows upstream with best effort possible, so changing dependency could be seen as breaking that. However, pacman already supports choosing alternate packages during installation so technically they could add it, but how many percentage of users are needing that convenience? Not to mention the arch team will need to maintain said list of alternatives for every dependencies. If you want, you can add it yourself via pacman hook to prevent you from accidentally installing non free software, or write a wrapper for pacman, or use other distro like Parabola.