Basically title.

I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.

  • aberrate_junior_beatnikEnglish
    13·
    4 months ago

    I keep seeing this criticism, but flatpak provides a run command on its cli that works just fine. It is a little clunky though.

        • oldfart@lemm.ee
          2·
          4 months ago

          I don’t need to do it with native-installed programs. And they are properly integrated with the OS, if you install them:

          1. You get a menu entry in gui
          2. You get a binary or a wrapper in /usr/bin
      • aberrate_junior_beatnikEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        Yep. But,

        sudo tee /usr/local/bin/nvim <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
flatpak run io.neovim.nvim "$@"
EOF
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/nvim

        (I haven’t tested this, that I use similar code for a different program)

        It sure would be nice if flatpak bundled some functionality to do this for you, though.

        @oldfart@lemm.ee

    • oldfart@lemm.ee
      1·
      4 months ago

      There is no .desktop menu entry and i need to remember a lengthy fqdn which does not autocomplete, great ui