Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

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On 07/16/2017 01:25 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Christian Schaller wrote:
>> One major reason is that it enables us to move towards having the Atomic
>> Workstation version be the primary one and maybe in the (very) long run be
>> the only one.
>>
>> A bit more detail about that can be found here:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/AtomicWorkstation
> And how is that a worthwhile goal to begin with? I see only disadvantages in 
> the Atomic model. No more fine-grained choice of packages, just a "take it 
> or leave it" blob. No more possibility to add additional repositories 
> replacing individual packages (in fact, it contradicts the modularity idea 
> that is also being planned). And to work around that, you force all 
> applications to be delivered as their own monolithic blobs duplicating all 
> the libraries that are already in the OS blob (either as part of a "Runtime" 
> or as part of the app itself).
>
> I do NOT want an Atomic blob as my operating system. If Fedora forces its 
> users to use that, I will not use Fedora anymore.
>
>         Kevin Kofler

I completely agree with you, sounds like we lose flexibility and make
things much more complicated as they should be.

Greetings,
Christian
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