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apt-get and yum and pacman and the rest do not enforce containerization.
by millstone 7y ago
apt-get and yum and pacman and the rest do not enforce containerization.
- heavyset_go 7y agosnap and flatpak certainly enforce sandboxing.
- mkl 7y agoNo, but they get their software from a trusted central authority (unless you choose to trust a third party repo and add it manually).
- csunbird 7y agoJust like Apple Store ? (except the part where you can add 3rd party stores)
- mkl 7y agoThe apps there can't be vetted by others who want to (like they can for apt etc.). The incentives are totally different: Apple Store is commercial, and Apple takes 30%, hence the part about taking your choices away.
- tekknik 7y agoApple takes 30%, so it’s in their best interest to push as many apps through as possible, yet the process is notoriously difficult. This shows you their motivation is in the right place. A third party can be bought (see Amazon paid reviews) to push something through. We’ve also seen cases in these public, but “vetted”, repos where bad code was pushed without being caught until after the fact (see NPM leftpad)
- scarface74 7y agoThe article is about the Mac App Store. You can have third party app stores on the Mac.
- swebs 7y agoWhich is why some distros like Ubuntu are moving to replace them.
- anoncake 7y agoNot entirely, Flatpak is not intended for the base system, only for applications. Snap is AFAIK but probably not because Canonical wants to sandbox the OS from itself.