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The bundle concept applies more to AppImages than to Flatpak. Flatpak downloads common runtime libraries and packages and uses them to run all GUI packages in a
by _2paq 5y ago
The bundle concept applies more to AppImages than to Flatpak. Flatpak downloads common runtime libraries and packages and uses them to run all GUI packages in a sandboxed environment using bubblewrap. OStree is also involved.
I dislike Flatpak because it encourages package maintainer obsolescence. I heard a guy from OpenSUSE saying in a MicroOS presentation that why create, manage, and use RPMs when we can just use Flatpak. I also don't want to touch Flatpak anymore because people from GNOME are involved in it.
- pxc 5y agoI have to admit that Flatpak's runtime deduplication is impressively good, despite preferring the Nix approach. It's a shame to hear that kind of talk coming from the openSUSE world when Zypper did so much to raise the bar for high-level Linux distro package management tools. :( openSUSE does an awesome job getting a hell of a lot of mileage out of RPM, from the vendor-based repo management to BTRFS snapshots to the huge and powerful (cross-distro!) automated build service.
- _2paq 5y ago> It's a shame to hear that kind of talk coming from the openSUSE world when Zypper did so much to raise the bar for high-level Linux distro package management tools. :( Yeah, I don't think it'll last in the foreseeable future judging by how these distros are jumping on the Flatpak/Snap bandwagon. For these distros, package management might as well be dead. I expect a few distros, such as Alpine Linux and Arch Linux, to remain relatively free from the influence of Flatpak and that's what I'll continue to use on my personal machines.