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Downsides of Flatpak

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TIL Flatpak is its own distro

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  • When I was packaging Flatpaks, the greatest downside is

    No built in package manager

    There is a repo with shared dependencies, but it is very few. So needs to package all the dependencies... So, I personally am not interested in packaging for flatpak other than in very rare occasions... Nix and Guix are definitely better solutions (except the isolation aspect, which is not a feature, you need to do it manually), and one can use at many distros; Nix even on MacOS!

    • nix on MacOS doesn't even have Chromium. all my kekw

      ... :'(

      • Well; darwin users, just as linux users, should also work on making packages available to their platforms as Nix is still in its adoption phase. There are many already. IIRC I, who never use MacOS, made some effort into making 1 or 2 packages (likely more) to build on darwin.

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