Re: ALP WG Meeting minutes - July 5th 2022
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Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2022-07-06 11:48, Dan Čermák wrote:
1) What are the advantages of flatpak/container vs RPM?
Flatpaks support sandboxing when configured properly giving you greater security benefits in comparison to traditional rpms.
But that is not inherent to the flatpaks themselves. As you say, flatpaks are but a different method of _distributing_ software. And so the critique becomes: stop distributing software twice.
That's what will happen. Currently we distribute software for every code stream and with flatpaks we hope to reduce the burden on our maintainers and allow them to distribute it only once.
To make flatpaks (or, at this point: sandboxes) more widely accepted, generate them on the fly from an existing system, i.e. from {an rpmdb and loose files} rather than from a set of .rpm files.
Sure, that would be nice to have. But creating such a system is a lot of
work which is really hard to justify if there is already a perfectly
functioning and widely adopted system in place.
Cheers,
Dan
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Dan Čermák
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