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Is there a downside to Flatpak? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically title.

I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Endlessly reading on social media that is not a good from Linux "gurus". LOL

It's been great for me, but I wish it had a official gui for permissions management.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I wish there was an option for an android style system where, when an application wants to use a permission for the first time, you get a pop up asking you to grant that permission.

Or, more generally, just some way to ensure that (a) a flatpak isn't granted the permissions it wants automatically and (b) I can then manually grant those permissions as conveniently as possible

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you aware of flatseal?

If you are, is there an issue with using it for you?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Flatseal is good, just not official.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure why/if that matters honestly, aside from discoverability I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It's as official as it gets. The XDG team provides the underlying infrastructure, and the community provides the tools.