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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday October 02, 2020 @08:37AM (#24661952)
Holy shit I hate this opinion. The best thing about personal computing is being able to build software and just pass it around easily. Having to rely on a third party to be able to install software is awful.
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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by swiley on Friday October 02, 2020 @08:43AM (#24661986)
I'm absolutely not suggesting you rely on a third party. It's very easy and preferable to pass around source code, and it's (by design) very easy to build GNU/Linux apps from the source.

Distributing binaries will absolutely bring about calls to lock computing down to 3rd party distributors because the kind of people that can't handle typing `./configure` are the same kind that will pull random maleware off of google.

No good can come from installing closed software anyway.

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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday October 02, 2020 @08:51AM (#24662048)
> I'm absolutely not suggesting you rely on a third party. It's very easy and preferable to pass around source code, and it's (by design) very easy to build GNU/Linux apps from the source.

Yeah, it is so easy that no one ever uses containers to ensure a consistent and working build environment for software!

Oh wait, yes they do.

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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by swiley on Friday October 02, 2020 @08:54AM (#24662071)
If your application is that complex then yes you probably should be working with it in a container.

There are decades of very good desktop applications that are simple and easy to build. Flatpack will just encourage things like slack.

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