What are your thoughts on Flatpak/Flathub?
flathub.org
How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?
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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?
The sandbox can be very cumbersome when there is not a way to break out. I'm thinking specifically of command line tools for developers. You can poke holes in the sandbox to access the filesystem, but the moment you want to run an executable it won't let you.
Flathub doesn't accept CLI tools (unlike the Snap store)
Regarding modifying Sandboxes, try Flatseal
Other way around, accessing command line tools. As far as I know, there is no sandbox setting to allow access to execute commands directly on the host system.
Why is helix there then?
Flatpaks aren't meant for command line utilities.
Right. I mean something like an embedded terminal in an IDE that has full shell access to the host environment.