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Despite it being one of the most popular and feature rich download managers out there and it being foss, it seems that most repos don't have it ( except for flahub iirc) Is there is any reason behind that?

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[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not sure really; it may be because either jdownloader has a self updating function (i dont think its this one because it could be patched out like most repos patch telemetry out of audacity) or because it has very frequent updates to keep the site scrapers and downloaders working since it's a continous arms race between them and the websites ( i'm not sure if repos have nightly builds of programs or not).

[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

it’s a continous arms race between them and the websites

i thought of that too but youtube-dl and yt-dlp still exists in most repos

jdownloader has a self updating function

maybe i mean the program is written in fucking java, i don't know of any other mainstream program that uses java outside of minecraft.

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, I think all Jetbrains software is written in Java...?

[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Jetbrains

well i meant software that even non developers uses

[–] milk@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago

Most android apps?

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Java is pretty common, moreso in enterprise but still, it's not like it's some unknown language lmfao

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

i thought of that too but youtube-dl and yt-dlp still exists in most repos

And if you're distro isn't one that pushes out fast updates, then neither will work consistently.