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What are your thoughts on Flatpak/Flathub? (flathub.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You have the option to add the verified subset only, and you can always check permissions before starting an installed app, and it will not start before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure everyone does that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah with Snaps you also have unofficial packages, no apparmor at all and a mix of foss and nonfoss apps.

But with flatpak these things are accessible and Flatseal is very commonly used.

"Already perfect" vs. "Has the foundation to fix it easily" distros could easily allow to add the subset or improve the permission system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do... Do you think I'm claiming snaps are better or something? I'm saying they're much easier to use and I don't give a shit about walled-garden BS. I don't want my laptop to be like my phone. I want to install an application and I want it to work. Flatpaks are fine - they just made a really stupid decision about how to run them from the CLI which is 90% of the time where I launch programs from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a better approach for running from CLI? Apps need exact names I guess, and the system is exact.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The way we've done it for like 30 years seems to work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How would you prevent package duplicates when using flatpak and native?

alias "flatpak run org.app.name"=*f-name"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The way it's always been done. Put them in different paths and set priority with the PATH variable.