Is there a downside to Flatpak?

0485@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 172 points –

Basically title.

I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.

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complicate packaging, XML sucks (are there good editors or something?), I heard that the Flatpak builder is better for certain languages.

What has XML got to do with it? Flatpak manifests are either JSON (not great but OK) or YAML, which is great.

YAML, which is great

countries:
  - fi
  - se
  - no
  - dk

=> { "countries": ["fi", "se", false, "dk"] }

Weird? One I saw was XML or maybe JSON

Probably JSON. I haven’t been involved in Flatpak for a long time but I’ve never seen XML. JSON is quite close to XML in it’s layout sometimes I find so easily mistaken.

YAML, which is great.

Well, someone had to finally believe that.