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.

  • @BigTrout75
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    910 months ago

    Endlessly reading on social media that is not a good from Linux “gurus”. LOL

    It’s been great for me, but I wish it had a official gui for permissions management.

    • Communist
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      610 months ago

      Are you aware of flatseal?

      If you are, is there an issue with using it for you?

      • @BigTrout75
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        510 months ago

        Flatseal is good, just not official.

        • Communist
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          110 months ago

          I’m not sure why/if that matters honestly, aside from discoverability I guess.

        • setVeryLoud(true);
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          110 months ago

          It’s as official as it gets. The XDG team provides the underlying infrastructure, and the community provides the tools.

    • @[email protected]
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      610 months ago

      I wish there was an option for an android style system where, when an application wants to use a permission for the first time, you get a pop up asking you to grant that permission.

      Or, more generally, just some way to ensure that (a) a flatpak isn’t granted the permissions it wants automatically and (b) I can then manually grant those permissions as conveniently as possible