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I hate packaging my software for Linux (fresh) (getfresh.dev)
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[–] -2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I know right? This is literally what flat pack was meant to address. Just package has push it and let any system use it. So it is a little more complicated and another step on top of everything.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    To be fair, he does address why flatpak isn't really suitable for his package in particular, as it needs to get out of the sandbix flatpak puts it in, which is hacky. None-the-less, it does feel like he's making a mountain out of a mole hill.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Ah that's fair yeah. It's getting better. But without some sort of system where a flat pack can request the permissions that it needs at install or runtime. It's far from where it should be. Trivial to do with an app like flat seal. But that's not typically installed out of the box. It's all command line by default and very obtuse to the average user.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This is literally what flat pack was meant to address. Just package has push it and let any system use it. So it is a little more complicated and another step on top of everything.

    Flatpak is absolutely terrible. As a second repository, it breaks source of truth, doesn't share dependency or SBOM data with the system and at worst begs for dependency hell.

    At best it's XKCD 927.

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