Re:Flatpak Is Not the Future
by kirbyfan64sos on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @07:22AM
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This often doesn't really work in practice on its own at least, since packages tend to hardcode their in installation directories. (You could try using an overlayfs, but at that point it's becoming pretty cumbersome.)
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You can recompile package from source to support installation into `~/.local` (see `man 7 file-hierarchy`), but burden to support this will be on you, including updates, protection from malware and viruses, firewalling, and so on.
For example, rust's cargo can compile and install applications into `~/.local`, but it's pain to keep them up to date, so I prefer to use same tools from my OS (Fedora) distribution repo instead.