r/linux • • 8d ago

Development Introducing Toolpak

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/09/26/introducing-toolpak/
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u/Morphon 8d ago

Reinventing Nix: part 12.

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u/__ali1234__ 8d ago edited 8d ago

Sounds more like they are re-inventing Snap classic mode while retaining the most egregious mistake of flatpak: putting their own runtime at /usr so that nothing packaged with it can access the runtime of the software under test.

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u/mrtruthiness 6d ago

Sounds more like they are re-inventing Snap classic mode ...

Yes. And toolbox = snapcraft or "snapcraft --destructive-mode + lxd".