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 <vondr...@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/ -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
