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One of the downsides seems like since the developer packages everything together, I’m reliant on them to push out changes. For example if some dependency needs a critical security update then I’m relying on every flatpak author to apply that change and push out a new version. But if I’m installing packages directly, I can update that one package and be done with it across my system.
Never thought of this scenario. Do they address it?
Most of the time, dependencies are handled by the runtimes. Those are updated routinely and do get security updates too.
https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/basic-concepts.html