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    Background-Story: I did a "flatpak update" on a remote client and every package wants the PW for downloading and for installing again. I had to enter the password like 30 times or more.

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    [–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (33 children)

    I know a lot of people enjoy flatpak, and I enjoyed it for a couple apps that had annoying update processes in other package managers, but I'm really not impressed with it overall. Maybe it's an unpopular opinion

    [–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (19 children)

    Nah, it's pretty popular. Flatpack for the things you can't / won't use your regular package manager is the most common behavior.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    I dunno. A lot of stuff is switching over to flatpak these days. And it is the right direction. Regular repo stuff for the system and flatpak for apps is the way to go. You can have solid base separate from the applications.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    And it is the right direction.

    I disagree. There's already a universal format for deploying software on all Linux distros. It's called "source code".

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Well there's always Gentoo for those who want that, I suppose.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Or Arch. Or Slackware. Or OpenSUSE. Or basically any general purpose distro that isn't Debian-based.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

    I meant more geared for source from the get-go. Compiling everything from source without package manager or something, old school style might be a bit of a pain for most users.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
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