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> No warnings or communication of the exception were given. All trust I had in Flatpak was eroded from that moment on This is just wrong. Clients like the flat
by preisschild 2mo ago
> No warnings or communication of the exception were given. All trust I had in Flatpak was eroded from that moment on
This is just wrong. Clients like the flathub website or gnome software show the risk posed by wide ranging access to local files, but Flatpak has to support legacy applications that don't use portals yet and thus they can't block applications having those permissions
https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/com.calibre_ebook.calibre https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/com.calibre_ebook.calibre
> calibre is potentially unsafe
> Full file system read/write access
> Can read and write all data on the file system
- Shorel 2mo ago> Flatpak has to support legacy applications that don't use portals yet That was the wrong architectural tradeoff, IMO.
- someothherguyy 2mo agoThe flathub website warnings are good, but some warnings in the CLI would be nice as well. What it looks like in the CLI (depending on the host): com.calibre_ebook.calibre permissions: ipc network fallback-x11 pulseaudio wayland devices file access [1] dbus access [2] system dbus access [3] [1] host, xdg-config/kdeglobals:ro, xdg-data/Trash, xdg-run/speech-dispatcher:ro I think it is easy to skim over "host" there