On Wed 2022-07-06, Dennis Knorr wrote:
BUT: What i like about flatpak (and containers) is that we have a separation of system base and user land. : it decouples userland-software-lifecycle and basesystem-software-lifecycle! This is good, guys!
FreeBSD has that for ages and it helped them well. and Linux also does need that from my POV.
It's not that straightforward for FreeBSD even: over time more and more things have moved from src (= the core) to ports such that the former has become more barebones. That can be a good thing. It also means that even base tools can have essentially move to a rolling release model - which some consider a good thing, some are concerned about. It also means that various major release streams differ in their base and use the same set of ports (version, etc.) though built separately. Gerald