Re: [SailfishDevel] Flatpak for Sailfish

2019-12-29 Thread rinigus
Hi, I would have preferred to stay away from discussion on why do we need/not need Flatpak on SFOS. But I guess I have to take it as the one working on making it possible. Native apps rely on the libs allowed in the Store and bundle the rest of them. I presume OSM Scout Server and Pure Maps are e

Re: [SailfishDevel] Flatpak for Sailfish

2019-12-29 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
Native apps rely on the libs shipped with the OS, thus they don't ship with unsecure libs unless Jolla is shipping them and they become secure the moment Jolla updated the libs (and should the update break binary compatibility will require a new release compiled against the new libs). Flatpacks and

Re: [SailfishDevel] Flatpak for Sailfish

2019-12-29 Thread rinigus
Hi, If you refer to http://flatkill.org/ , it does have lot of good points. In this respect, its similar to what we have with the native apps, as soon as some security flaws are used. At the moment, I would prefer to get access to the latest Qt and other recent software. But users are still respon

Re: [SailfishDevel] Flatpak for Sailfish

2019-12-29 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
No one is bothered by the serious (bad) security implications of running flatpacks? Though I guess we are all tolerating the claim to "security" on ancient kernels so we have no right to blab about security now 🤔 Op za 28 dec. 2019 om 12:04 schreef rinigus : > Hi, > > I am not 100% sure whether x