I've used Software Collections for deployment of server software, and I can say they do a lot less than tools like flatpak or snap. Besides being agnostic to desktop sessions, they try to address the problem of outdated versions of CentOS/RHEL packages which are difficult to replace (like Python), and work by hooking the environment to make additional binaries and runtimes available, typically installed under /opt/rh.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Floris <jkflo...@dds.nl> wrote: > >> >> This sounds like flatpak >> http://flatpak.org/ >> >> and is available in Debian >> > > Thanks much. But sadly, from http://flatpak.org/faq.html > "Flatpak is designed to run inside a desktop session and relies on certain > session services, such as a dbus session bus and a systemd --user instance. > So, is not a good match for a server." > > Do folks here agree that these services are "not a good match for a > server"? > Thanks......Nick G. > -- Jeremy Voorhis
