Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

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On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 04:59:37PM +0000, Debarshi Ray 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.

Things like libvirt-sandbox have been around for a really long time
and don't require special packaging (in fact they work with any
arbitrary command).

Rich.

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