On 4/21/23 20:45, Richard Brown wrote:
On 2023-04-20 13:10, Simon Lees wrote:
On 4/20/23 18:11, Richard Brown wrote:
I've got no idea until people answer the core question of my post..what do we want to build?
If we do end up in a hybrid world with a mix of rpm and flatpak it'd be great if someone wrote an abstraction layer so both could be updated at the same time and you could just run "foo install firefox" and get firefox from the right location depending on the product your using. Again while I think this would be ideal I haven't needed it enough to write anything myself but it would be a great hackweek idea for next time.
On the other hand to date the number of podman containers I personally use is low enough that I normally just write a systemd service for each and am done with it.
Well, as you can see in the GNOME MicroOS Desktop, I have a strong opinion on the best way of handling a 'hybrid' world where both rpms and flatpaks are key parts of the Desktop.
There we have nice graphical tools for handling the flatpaks, like GNOME Software. No typing anything, just pressing pretty buttons.
Does this also handle rpm's? I am generally unfamiliar with it as an openSUSE user who has access to yast and doesn't use Gnome (other then in lightning talks to show its useability issues :-P) i'm not that familiar with it. So would it be a better base for a hybrid solution then yast? and would upstream accept contributions? One other thing we found with Grassy Knoll is the dependency stack for anything Gnome related becomes very large very quickly and how / what we get from SUSE is still pretty unclear at this point. Having said that GDM has similar issues and i'd like to solve them there because its significantly better then lightdm in many applications. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B