> Then there is this weird thing where flatpaks force a runtime on you. My application is a statically linked go binary. But flatpaks pretty much want to force

> Then there is this weird thing where flatpaks force a runtime on you. My application is a statically linked go binary. But flatpaks pretty much want to force me to add an entire freedesktop suite as a dependency, as you simply cannot choose no runtime. That's a weird criticism to have of Flatpak. The FreeDesktop dependency is the base set of libraries all flatpaks have access to. You don't have to use it. In fact Freedesktop is a great idea, to provide a base framework applications can use that goes further than just libc. If we want Linux on the desktop, we need a common desktop framework interface. It would be like being unhappy a static go binary on Windows COULD access all of the win32 libraries. Also, Flatpak currently is best suited to GUI apps. If your go binary is a GUI app using either GTK or KDE, these will need the freedesktop facilities (such as D-Bus) to actually run properly.