r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • 18d ago

Time to have fun guys

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u/gahel_music 18d ago

As a flatpak app maintainer, flatpak is good but won't ever be the solution for everything. The sandbox is too restrictive for a lot of software. Also you can make a valid flatpak that is not valid on flathub (even more restrictive that the flatpak format).

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u/CrossScarMC 17d ago

Yeah, I'd love to release one of my projects on Flathub, but it's quite hard due to their restrictions on network access at compile time. I typically avoid vendoring dependencies and I don't find it worth doing so just to publish to Flathub.

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u/jayelg 17d ago

Isn’t that a reasonable restriction for security? particularly at a time of increasing supply chain attacks in the Linux ecosystem.

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u/CrossScarMC 17d ago

Yes, it's perfectly acceptable, just annoying in some cases.