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Flatpack, appimage, snaps.. (leminal.space)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Appimage for me ticks all the boxes for cross distro package as its very portable, simple to run, what are devs trying to do when creating snaps and flatpack?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Flatpaks have the concept of runtimes; instead of downloading the entire qt tooling for a qt app the app could just use the KDE runtime same goes for GTK with the Gnome runtime. Flatpaks also have dependencies which can be shared between multiple apps even when they are not part of their runtimes, they are called "baseapps". Flatpak apps still use double the space my normal apps take on a fresh install, so I assume using appimages to replace them will leave no space on my SSD.

Before deciding to settle on using Flatpak I tried to search for appimage permissions and how to set them, but it seems there is no such thing? If that's true then there's another advantage for Flatpaks and Snaps.

Also with all due respect: Flatpak and Snap tooling are not maintained by Probonodb.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What do you mean by AppImage permissions? A sandboxing feature like "access only those directories, those /dev devices, ..."

EDIT: obviously this isn't just for AppImage, but I tested it with AppImage and it work well. Another tip: if you want a package manager for managing AppImage installations try zap (https://github.com/srevinsaju/zap)

In that case, take a look at bubblejail. (https://github.com/igo95862/bubblejail)