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Whereas flatpak doesn't rely on benevolent volunteers? I think having a dedicated community where maintainers can easily pool their package updates together wou

• didibus 6y ago
  > Whereas flatpak doesn't rely on benevolent volunteers? It doesn't on the distribution side. Yes it's maintained by volunteers, but the packaging and distribution is not, it can be done by the application developer. So if I make a desktop application for Linux, I can do a flatpack build of it, and now all distros can install my app. Where as traditionally, I would have had to make multiple builds for targeting different distros. So generally, what happens is the app developer maintains a build for the most popular distro only, and there are other volunteers in other distros who try and repackage it for other distros and maintain it up to date, etc.