On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 06:01:17PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
Dne 25. 01. 23 v 15:59 Josh Boyer napsal(a):
>On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 5:56 AM Vít Ondruch <vondruch(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>>I am not user of Bottles so I won't complain about this particular case,
>>but the push towards (upstream) Flatpaks is unfortunate :/
>Can you elaborate on why you feel that way?
I don't trust upstream Flatpacks. I don't trust they follow any
standard except standard of their authors.
And I don't like Flatpacks, because their main advantage (their
isolation) is also their biggest disadvantage. There can't be both
without making compromises. If I am not mistaken, the isolation is
also mostly myth, because it is disabled in most cases.
In addition to this, the supposed promise of Flatpaks (eg [1]) is that
they are built from Fedora's RPMs. But how does that work for
"upstream" Flatpaks? How do we know they don't contain non-free
software? How do we ensure we can obtain and rebuild from source?
Rich.
[1]
https://fedoramagazine.org/an-introduction-to-fedora-flatpaks/
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