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flatpacks falling flat, packing bugs, snaps snapping resources, both suck

flatpacks falling flat, packing bugs, snaps snapping resources, both suck

Posted Mar 19, 2025 6:26 UTC (Wed) by andrejp (guest, #47396)
In reply to: flatpacks falling flat, packing bugs, snaps snapping resources, both suck by intelfx
Parent article: Fedora discusses Flatpak priorities

Actually, it is. Both. See my original message.

It's akin to scratching your ass if your arm itches. It might feel good, but won't actually do anything about the itch. Alas the "Lennarts" of the world insist that "this isn't the itch you're looking for" (waving hand) and would instead provide users with a fat sticker to put over the arm, claiming that that will somehow fix or prevent any and all itches. Which in theory sounds fine until the arm starts to itch anyway. For which Lennarts provide more, bigger and fatter stickers, along with a stick as a "free" bonus (so don't complain, 'coz it's free) so you can scratch your ass more conveniently.

Check the internet. Or at least LWN. Seems like a whole lot of people with itches they can't scratch, 'coz Lennart and his one-fix-for-all stickers.

The solution ofc is to uninstall Lennart, along with packs that fall flat, snaps that mostly snap the system's resources, and systemT (T as in "trash"). Then the itch can be scratched by the user in the proper place. And if you want to feel good too, you can also scratch your ass, even if it doesn't itch. All without Lennart's "free" sticks and stickers.

It's pretty simple actually. A system-wide MAC can do it. It's helpful if a systems integrator ("distro") - and /not/ the 3rd party that provides the app - provides the default MAC sandbox for the app(s), but not strictly required. Then the *user* can add the required permissions/exceptions for *his* use case. All "in the system" (and not "in the app package"). No Lennart required.


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