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Is there a downside to Flatpak? (lemmy.world)

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

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Basically title.

I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The biggest downside is that it's only for distributing applications with a graphical user interface. Command line utilities still need another method of distribution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

That’s a good point!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I keep seeing this criticism, but flatpak provides a run command on its cli that works just fine. It is a little clunky though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Clunky as in flatpak run io.neovim.nvim instead of just nvim

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

Can't you alias that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I don't need to do it with native-installed programs. And they are properly integrated with the OS, if you install them:

You get a menu entry in gui
You get a binary or a wrapper in /usr/bin

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Yep. But,

sudo tee /usr/local/bin/nvim <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
flatpak run io.neovim.nvim "$@"
EOF
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/nvim

(I haven't tested this, that I use similar code for a different program)

It sure would be nice if flatpak bundled some functionality to do this for you, though.

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

There is no .desktop menu entry and i need to remember a lengthy fqdn which does not autocomplete, great ui