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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 12:05 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: flatpacks falling flat, packing bugs, snaps snapping resources, both suck by farnz
Parent article: Fedora discusses Flatpak priorities

> How, exactly, does asking the system to bind mount a directory chosen by the user into the mount namespace your process is using, hurt performance?

An extra layer of indirection can solve all manner of problems, except the problem of too many layers of indirection.

Cheers,
Wol


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