MashedTech@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year agoI'm probably going to get a lot of explanations in the commentsmessage-squaremessage-square148fedilinkarrow-up1747arrow-down151
arrow-up1696arrow-down1message-squareI'm probably going to get a lot of explanations in the commentsMashedTech@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square148fedilink
minus-squareTechognito@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoI thought the com.flatpak.Appname came from Android, so I guess google is to blame? /var is really annoying, especially when partitioning, previously I could just have a /var partition, but now I need to do /var/log specifically
minus-squareXTornado@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 year agoI mean doesn't that come from Java naming conventions? Which then makes sense that it continued on Android… but Why did it end up on FlatPack!?
minus-squareTechognito@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI will speculate to say that maybe someone looked at the java/android way and thought let's just copy that. It's the most plausible answer I can think of, without doing any research whatsoever
minus-squarehalva@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIt's a nice way to get around naming collisions.
I thought the com.flatpak.Appname came from Android, so I guess google is to blame?
/var is really annoying, especially when partitioning, previously I could just have a /var partition, but now I need to do /var/log specifically
I mean doesn't that come from Java naming conventions? Which then makes sense that it continued on Android… but Why did it end up on FlatPack!?
I will speculate to say that maybe someone looked at the java/android way and thought let's just copy that.
It's the most plausible answer I can think of, without doing any research whatsoever
It's a nice way to get around naming collisions.
Well yeah that's true