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- cross-posted to:
- linux@programming.dev
The Flatpak is already packaged and works well. It just needs to be maintained from a person that joins the Inkscape community.
This would allow further improvements like Portal support and making the app official on Flathub.
What is ?
Apt or distro package manager of choice.
Those need root and don’t isolate apps from the base system
Yet curiously they’re far more secure. Huh.
No they aren’t
It completely invalidates the Android security model if something can arbitrarily bypass restrictions.
Thankfully we don’t have to follow the dumb Android security model on desktops.
on Qubes we still have security through compartmentalization, yet all systems have root access (even passwordless sudo)
I’d say flatpak isn’t the future because it’s already here and seems to be universally accepted as the cross-distro package manager.
I do like how the Nix package manager handles dependencies, but it’s not suitable for app developers packaging their own apps because of its complexity.
If a better flatpak comes around I’d use it too, but at least for graphical apps I don’t know what it’d have to do to be better. In my opinion, flatpak is a prime example of good enough, but not perfect and I’d be surprised if there was a different tool with the same momentum in 15 years (except snap, but they seem too Ubuntu specific).