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> (practically an entire distro!) Practically most container images literally are their own distro install. In the case of flatpak, this becomes obvious when l
by Vogtinator 4y ago
> (practically an entire distro!)
Practically most container images literally are their own distro install. In the case of flatpak, this becomes obvious when looking at flathub and the provided "runtimes". At that point they just reinvented packages.
- badsectoracula 4y agoFlatpak is much worse than packages because if i install a package from my distro it doesn't make duplicates for libraries and other software i already have installed. If Flatpak checked to see what i have already available and downloaded only the dependencies i do not have already installed while also providing seamless integration (a large part of which wouldn't be an issue if it used the system libraries/software), it'd actually be very useful and a solution to every distro having to package every program under the sun and keep it up to date (which IMO is also a bad thing because obviously not all distros can do that, it is just that Flatpak is a worse solution).
- robertlagrant 4y agoTo my understanding Nix solves this pretty well: just install a flat list of every dependency + version combination any of your software needs. No duplication, all dependencies.