LibreOffice Is Now One Of The First Major Linux Desktop Apps With A Flatpak

[RahulSundaram]

If you want an OS that functions like android then make flatpackOS.

You are confused about the goals here. Flatpak has nothing to do with android.

[cj.wijtmans]

what you are pointing to has zero runtime sandboxing which is the feature I am referring to.

If you want an OS that functions like android then make flatpackOS.

[RahulSundaram]

never said it did. i just said the sandbox software exists and is used by pms, just not for the apps without config.

what you are pointing to has zero runtime sandboxing which is the feature I am referring to.

[RahulSundaram]

You have an OS with only 1 pm. instead of 5.

Nope. You will have six instead of five.

[cj.wijtmans]

what problem would that solve?

You have an OS with only 1 pm. instead of 5.

How is that integrated with a package manager? It only provides a environment for building. It does not control runtime sandboxing at all

never said it did. i just said the sandbox software exists and is used by pms, just not for the apps without config.

[RahulSundaram]

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox

How is that integrated with a package manager? It only provides a environment for building. It does not control runtime sandboxing at all

[RahulSundaram]

why not make flatpackOS while you are at it?

what problem would that solve?

[cj.wijtmans]

Distro package managers have no sandboxing and they are distro specific.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox

[cj.wijtmans]

why not make flatpackOS while you are at it?

[RahulSundaram]

distro package managers already have repos, metadata and sandboxing. Well mine does. However i could see this being useful for steam.

Distro package managers have no sandboxing and they are distro specific.