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

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

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[–] clemdemort 1 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's the easiest solution to packaging software for Linux that doesn't mean it's good, In fact fhe way no dependencies are shared absolutely wrecks my hard drive and makes everything super long (downloading, updating, etc...).

Where it shines is security but to be honest do you really need an open source app to be in it's own secure sandbox?

I vastly prefer nix and I wish packaging stuff for it was easier.

[–] rsolva 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It does share dependencies, but in a different way than a regular package manager. You share runtimes and base apps: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/dependencies.html

[–] meekah -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It still takes forever to update compared to more traditional package managers

[–] rsolva 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I never notice any update times, as the default in Fedora is to auto-update (I think?). Everything is just always up to date.

Edit: coming from ten years of Arch, this has significantly reduced my time fixing things related to an update 😆

[–] meekah -2 points 4 months ago

Yeah I disabled those because my Internet is shit. I'm also on fedora and when I update, the 3 flatpak apps that I have installed take as long as my entire system to update. But I get it doesn't make much of a difference if it just happens in the background

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