On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 00:05, Eric Schirra <ecsos@opensuse.org> wrote:
Is that really your serious? Is this the future of distributions and especially OpenSuse? You shoot you into your own knees. I do not want new repositories / applications. I would like to have a single package manager as well as. In addition, and the docker was never thought of. Not to mention stability issues and resource waste. And also from other parts of libraries. And not least of security risks. And if I want this all (security risks, multiple existing libraries, resource waste) I can take windows :-(
For the desktop, I don't see why this wouldn't be the future. Fedora already builds Flatpaks from RPMs, if OBS could, we probably would also have a project dedicated to building Flatpaks based on our packages. That would actually mean we could ship Flatpaks of Tumbleweed applications without the issues of conflicting RPM package versions, by using a Tumbleweed runtime (one time install, no duplicated libs). Projects like Silverblue (and Kubic Desktop if and when it happens) already focus on usecases where RPM package managers aren't used by the users. Updates are performed automatically, and user only uses Flatpak to install the software they need. It makes the life of the user easier. Not to mention, this would allow SUSE and openSUSE distros to still have "supported" packages, but without the restrictions of the system those are run on. However, if you want Leap to ship Tumbleweed packages, you will have to have multiple versions of libraries, languages and other basic stuff, just to support the premise of mixed version system. It's more work (and probably even more space) than having two versions, and using the newer one to build flatpaks/containers for use with the older one. LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org