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Why Veracrypt not in flatpak? (self.opensource)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by cplusplus to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can give a Flatpak the necessary permissions to modify disks. All the permissions needed by Veracrypt could be granted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and then what's the benefit of having veracrypt as a flatpak package? that it can be used with older dependencies? if so, is that a good thing to have for things that modify system startup?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

and then what's the benefit of having veracrypt as a flatpak package?

Flatpaks is a universal package format, it works almost everywhere. Also, there are immutable distros, that use flatpak as the default package format.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I haven't used veracrypt to encrypt linux system partitions. Does it do all the decryption in user space somehow?