29 Apr
2020
29 Apr
'20
10:41 a.m.
On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 10:27 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
What are flatpaks and why are they better or worse than rpm.
Flatpacks are containerized applications. They're nice because you can get access to applications that aren't part of the distro repositories. It allows specific versions of the application's dependencies to be packaged with it. The biggest downside is bloat / redundancy with system libraries.
Also they often don't integrate completely with your existing desktop as they run essentially in a sandbox. That may or may not matter according to the application.
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