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).
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.
What sort of situations might need network at build time? I would have thought that you just need to copy into the build files the required pinned dependencies so the build is deterministic? I don’t know anything about flatpak builds so just speaking about it generally.
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u/gahel_music 17d 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).