Re: Retiring Bottles in favor of Flatpak provided by upstream

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On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 06:01:17PM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> 
> Dne 25. 01. 23 v 15:59 Josh Boyer napsal(a):
> >On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 5:56 AM Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>I am not user of Bottles so I won't complain about this particular case,
> >>but the push towards (upstream) Flatpaks is unfortunate :/
> >Can you elaborate on why you feel that way?
> 
> 
> I don't trust upstream Flatpacks. I don't trust they follow any
> standard except standard of their authors.
> 
> And I don't like Flatpacks, because their main advantage (their
> isolation) is also their biggest disadvantage. There can't be both
> without making compromises. If I am not mistaken, the isolation is
> also mostly myth, because it is disabled in most cases.

In addition to this, the supposed promise of Flatpaks (eg [1]) is that
they are built from Fedora's RPMs.  But how does that work for
"upstream" Flatpaks?  How do we know they don't contain non-free
software?  How do we ensure we can obtain and rebuild from source?

Rich.

[1] https://fedoramagazine.org/an-introduction-to-fedora-flatpaks/

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