On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 10:27 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > > What are flatpaks and why are they better or worse than rpm. > > > Flatpacks are containerized applications. They're nice because you can get > access to applications that aren't part of the distro repositories. It > allows specific versions of the application's dependencies to be packaged > with it. The biggest downside is bloat / redundancy with system libraries.
Also they often don't integrate completely with your existing desktop as they run essentially in a sandbox. That may or may not matter according to the application. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
