On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Miller
<mat...@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
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