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If you're actually interested in packaging a generic Linux GUI app, check out snapd. It's originally an Ubuntu project, but has been pretty widely adopted at t
by gibspaulding 7y ago
If you're actually interested in packaging a generic Linux GUI app, check out snapd. It's originally an Ubuntu project, but has been pretty widely adopted at this point. I believe every distro you mentioned can run snaps, except maybe Gentoo.
https://snapcraft.io/ https://snapcraft.io/
- BiteCode_dev 7y agoSnapd has it's own set of problems. It is sandboxed, so your use case must be compatible. It uses apparmor, what if the system uses SEL ? It's sandboxed in a certain way, your app must support it. It's very recent, only the latest distribs have a snapd release that works well. It's slower to execute. Snapd assumes systemd. But wait, did you say snapd ? I though you said flatpack. Or appimages. Anyway, despite all that, it is easier to write a snapd instead of a deb+rpm+whatever. I actually like this project a lot. And again it proves my point: to get stability, we use snapd, a tool to compensate for diversity.