Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

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On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Debarshi Ray <rishi.is@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 09:44:18AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 03:31:30PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
>> >  F29: packagers (of graphical applications) must create Flatpaks of
>> >       their applications if possible. They *may* keep standard RPM
>> >       packaging.
>>
>> At least we see where this is going.
>>
>> If RPMs of the graphical application work fine now, what on earth is
>> the point of forcing packagers to make Flatpaks?  Sandboxing isn't one
>> of them - as already explained, sandboxing is orthogonal to packaging.
>
> Huh? How would you get sandboxing without Flatpaks? Unless you are
> proposing a different sandboxing technology.

As above, it could be the exact same sandbox technology with the same
portals and everything.  The sandboxed program would just be files in
/usr instead of a Flatpak.

--Andy
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