Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later

Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by knocte on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:44AM (#24663778)

> Again, to whom?

Are you trolling? I think the answer is obvious: less duplication of efforts may make the linux ecosystem be more lean which may mean more manpower to... bring the year of the linux desktop.

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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by asveikau on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:38PM (#24664360)

If you avoid duplication of effort by doing something worse than existing solutions, is that progress?

Distro package managers have more than 20 years doing this. If you want to replace them I think there should be fewer drawbacks. Otherwise you are throwing out decades of design, thought, bug fixes for something more problematic.

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Re:Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later by michaelmrose on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:45PM (#24664443)

You are assuming that packaging is a substantial burden when compared to making a complex application and that that labor translates ultimately into tangible benefits.

If the packaging is done by the dev you are assuming that 1% extra effort wont be spent playing chess instead of adding features.

If the packaging is down by an interested party for that distro you are assuming that a person competent to write a package file is even competent to say write an app let alone interested in doing so.

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