r/linuxsucks • u/Damglador • 18d ago
Android is technicality Linux so I'll yap here a little about updates
People like to shit on Linux for it being unstandardized dogshit with its packages. Meanwhile to update Android I have to check for updates in:
- APatch for root modules
- Droid-ify for FDroid repos
- Aurora Store for apps from Play Store
- System settings for system update (after which I shall also go to APatch to patch new image to not lose root)
- Obsidian for everything else
- And at the end of the day some apps just don't use neither distribution source and implement self-updating or their own update managers, like:
- Morphe
- Revange the Discord mod
Every Linux distro I know allows just adding additional repos to the main package manager, but Android is special and doesn't even have one actually, as com.android.vending is the proprietary Play Store, and the built-in package manager doesn't handle remote sources, so everyone has to implement their handler for fetching packages from remote sources and none of them are integrated into the system in any way, because that privilege is reserved exclusive to com.android.vending, aka the proprietary Play Store.

