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Package managers do not claim sandbox. No claim - no false claim - no accusation. And it is easy to fix - publish capabilities in the gallery. Apple iOS "reque
by sergeykish 6y ago
Package managers do not claim sandbox. No claim - no false claim - no accusation.
And it is easy to fix - publish capabilities in the gallery. Apple iOS "request location" shows that people care if they know. Sandbox certainly is a good thing. Without it Flatpak is just another package manager.
- Xylakant 6y agoFlatpak does not claim sandbox either. It’s gnome’s installer that claims it. But flatpak provides capabilities for sandboxing, afair.
- sergeykish 6y agoClearly something went wrong > It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatpak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatpak > flatpak(1): > ... isolated from the host system ('sandboxed') to some degree, at runtime. http://manpages.org/flatpak http://manpages.org/flatpak > One of Flatpak’s main goals is to increase the security of desktop systems by isolating applications from one another. This is achieved using sandboxing and means that, by default, applications that are run with Flatpak have extremely limited access to the host environment. https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html And a lot more https://www.google.com/search?q=flatpak+sandbox https://www.google.com/search?q=flatpak+sandbox