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The Future of Flatpak

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306 points dxs | 1 comments | 22 May 25 23:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.354s | source
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enriquto ◴[23 May 25 08:00 UTC] No.44070852[source]▶
Never understood the point of flatpak, snap and the like. Can't you just distribute static binaries? They are not that hard to compile.

(I mean, from the distributing point of view. The sandboxing and resource management is a OS-thing that should be an orthogonal issue. Users must be able to sandbox programs that they don't trust, regardless to how they are packaged and distributed.)

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1. dale_glass ◴[23 May 25 08:09 UTC] No.44070906[source]▶
They're not at all trivial on anything big and complex.

And the code I work on has loadable plugins, too.