[Feature Request]: Use regular binary on Linux instead of AppImage as this is a cli program with no bundled dependencies

[dundarious]

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Description

This project ships a commandline tool that does not need an icon or a desktop file, nor does it have any non-trivial dependencies.

As such, it should ship a plain linux executable instead of an AppImage.

Reason

I extracted the appimage contents (with --appimage-extract) and installed pkg_extractor to /usr/bin and ran ldd to show dynamic library dependencies -- this was the output:

        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fa25fe29000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/bin/../lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007fa25fc0a000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/bin/../lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fa25f800000)
        libm.so.6 => /usr/bin/../lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fa25faec000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/bin/../lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fa25fabf000)
        libc.so.6 => /usr/bin/../lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fa25f60f000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fa25fe2b000)

These are just standard C/C++ libraries from glibc, and zlib.

In the extracted squashfs-root output from using --appimage-extract, only the following dependencies seem to be bundled:

squashfs-root/usr/optional/libstdc++.so.6/libstdc++.so.6
squashfs-root/usr/optional/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1

The only other meaningful contents of squashfs-root are also not needed for a commandline tool: an icon and a desktop file.

Examples

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[WesCook]

AppImages are still useful for atomic distros.

[AzaharPlus]

I will keep it as an appimage