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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: franz on Fedora?
From:       Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-04-29 15:41:58
Message-ID: ee26465f2f42ae0b7daf2f21fc80f6777dd44254.camel () gmail ! com
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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
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