Re:Flatpak Is Not the Future
by simiones on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @07:54AM
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That's only true for the simplest of apps. The whole point of desktop OSs is that programs can integrate with each other, but that necessarily discards the notion of a sandbox almost entirely.
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Yeah, e.g. file sandboxing approaches that work along the lines of "don't let the program access any files outside of its private directory except for those explicitly and lovingly hand-picked by the user" commonly ignore the existence of multi-file file formats.