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[–] null@slrpnk.net 27 points 2 years ago (10 children)

As if sandboxes are some brand new concept...

Of course people want them for some use-cases. No one here is saying that every application in the world should be restricted that way, grandpa.

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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah things like selinux and apparmor have been around for a long time, sandboxing is just an evolution of that

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No one here is saying that every application in the world should be restricted that way, grandpa.

Maybe not here in this thread, but aren't there some folks who want flatpak/snap/appimage to basically replace traditional package managers?

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[–] null@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

Doesn't make it a prevailing attitude worthy of whatever nonsense that other guy is spouting.

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[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

[...] aren't there some folks who want flatpak/snap/appimage to basically replace traditional package managers?

There might be people who think that, but that isn't realistic. Flatpak is a package manager for user facing apps, mostly gui apps.

The core system apps will still be installed by a system package manager. I.e rpm-ostree on immutable Fedora or transactional-update/zypper on OpenSUSE MicroOS.

Snap can do system apps and user facing apps and fully snap-based Ubuntu might come in the future.

But this won't force people to use them. Traditional package managers will keep existing for system apps and maintainers will proabably keep their gui packages in the repos.