Basically title.

I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.

  • Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    10 months ago

    until apps can declare on a simple config file what paths they require

    They can, and always could. Apps aren’t doing it, most Flatpaks have just blanket “allow ~/Downloads” or “allow all of home” permissions by default - or no file permissions, and you have to go grant them manually yourself.

    Again, unless apps actually support it, no matter how good the security system is, it won’t work out.