&gt;Self-contained executable or installer, please, or go back to the wood shed.<p>Language package managers suck, but this is way worse.  Self-contained executables bundle all of their dependencies, which is terrible for both reproducibility and security.  Users and system administrators have no reasonable way of identifying, patching, and updating vulnerable libraries&#x2F;programs these things, leaving them dependent on the upstream providers of each binary bundle for a bunch software they didn&#x27;t even write.  I&#x27;ve seen a growing push to &quot;appify&quot; GNU&#x2F;Linux lately, with Docker, xdg-app, OmniBus, etc. and I have become very  worried about what will happen if this becomes the dominant way of distributing software on GNU&#x2F;Linux.<p>Package management is good for users.  We need a safe and sane way to <i>maintain</i> the software running on our computers.  The control ought to be in the hands of the user, not the developer.