Richard Hughes wrote:
As the person who's been driving AppStream to make desktop
applications easier to install on Linux for the last decade (!) I can
tell you that flatpaks are in almost all cases what users should be
using. By any metric (e.g. live updates, portals, sandboxing,
per-user/per-system) they blow apps-as-packages out of the water. Use
packaged versions of your apps if you want to, but please don't veto a
feature that 99.99% of Fedora users categorically should be using.
You are conveniently ignoring the drawbacks of the approach, see, e.g.:
http://flatkill.org/
and that is by no means a complete list.
Kevin Kofler