• tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk
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    1 year ago

    Or actually do anything useful? No network, no filesystem… it’s a hello world app isn’t it…

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      No filesystem access for a flatpak app just means it cant read host system files on its own, without user permission. You can still give it files or directories of files through the file explorer for the app to work with, just that it’s much safer since it can only otherwise view files in its sandbox.

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          As if sandboxes are some brand new concept…

          Of course people want them for some use-cases. No one here is saying that every application in the world should be restricted that way, grandpa.

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            Yeah things like selinux and apparmor have been around for a long time, sandboxing is just an evolution of that

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            No one here is saying that every application in the world should be restricted that way, grandpa.

            Maybe not here in this thread, but aren’t there some folks who want flatpak/snap/appimage to basically replace traditional package managers?

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              Doesn’t make it a prevailing attitude worthy of whatever nonsense that other guy is spouting.

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              […] aren’t there some folks who want flatpak/snap/appimage to basically replace traditional package managers?

              There might be people who think that, but that isn’t realistic. Flatpak is a package manager for user facing apps, mostly gui apps.

              The core system apps will still be installed by a system package manager. I.e rpm-ostree on immutable Fedora or transactional-update/zypper on OpenSUSE MicroOS.

              Snap can do system apps and user facing apps and fully snap-based Ubuntu might come in the future.

              But this won’t force people to use them. Traditional package managers will keep existing for system apps and maintainers will proabably keep their gui packages in the repos.

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      There’s Obfuscate, an image redactor, and Metadata Cleaner which is self-descriptive. Both works properly without any filesystem access at all, because they use the file picker portal to ask the user for the files to be processed.