As someone that maintains a huge selection of packages, and an automated installer, for a very complex and interdependent set of OS vendor and third party packa

As someone that maintains a huge selection of packages, and an automated installer, for a very complex and interdependent set of OS vendor and third party packages, I think this is amazingly cool. This solves nearly all of the problems with container-based distributions of software (like Docker), while providing all of the benefits. It doesn't give up the capabilities of traditional package managers (which are very good for their purpose and in the right place), nor does it impose downloading huge image files for every new thing you install (no matter how small they make the container OS, it's still bigger than being able to share a few and having filesystem level de-dup and snapshot capabilities). I'm going to start working on a Flatpak version of our installation pretty much immediately (or, next week, once I get some other stuff rolled out). It is potentially a huge long-term time-saver for me, and a nice improvement for our customers, too, in that it would make every deployment look identical.