On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 01:12:07PM -0400, Ben Rosser wrote:
> ship pip, npm, etc? Where I become uncomfortable, and the reason I chimed
> in on this thread initially, is with the idea that these new containerized
> packaging systems are in some way *superior* to traditional packaging. Or
> at least that's what I read between the lines of the proposal to allow
> upstreams to ask for their flatpaks or whatever to be shipped in place of
> RPMs.
I think that once the full sandboxing / portal system is in place,
there _will_ be a tangible reason to prefer Flatpak.
Unless we can get the same sandboxing to work for RPMs, too. I'd
*love* to be able to:
sudo dnf install inkscape
inkscape
and have it be sandboxed. If we do s/inkscape/firefox, even better.
--Andy