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Inkscape Flatpak is looking for a maintainer! (github.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Flatpak is already packaged and works well. It just needs to be maintained from a person that joins the Inkscape community.

This would allow further improvements like Portal support and making the app official on Flathub.

Update: One might have been found!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I do mean downloading random stuff from random websites.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, is that a feature or a flaw?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A matter of perspective I think. It's a flaw in my opinion. Just downloading anything from anywhere sets one up for failure/malware.

Code Signing on its own is useless, I think. If there is no distribution structure or user-validated trustchain, of course. But then you don't really need Code Signing, a simple hash is enough.

My personal preference are the distro repos, to a point where I even dislike additional package managers like pip, npm or cargo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Just downloading anything from anywhere sets one up for failure/malware.

Reducing the size of the OS helps a ton here.

And mounting home read-only. I think Android and ChromeOS do that. I will experiment with that too, it is really interesting. You mainly need a different place to store user scripts, and appimages are broken (how sad), the rest should be fine.

Then a few more core concepts help too:

KISS (keep it stupid simple)
Unix philosophy (everything does one thing and stays transparent)
and the concept of least privilege (seccomp, MAC (mandatory access control, SELinux/Apparmor, sandboxes, jails, etc).

Flatpak helps a ton centralizing the packaging efforts. And it works. There are tons of officially supported packages. And I guess many of them will be maintained upstream.

But you still have a secure system, sandboxing, verification and packagers that keep an eye on it, kind of.

On a secure system you would need to pay a lot of people, like the typical 3-5 people that package most apps. For doing security analyses, opting-in to every new update etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, I don't think I can see the point you are making. Are you saying that one can get around the 3-5 people by using flatpaks, ro home directories and other mitigations?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

get around the 3-5 people

What people?

Nonexecutable home directories I mean. /tmp too. This only makes sense as normally programs are in different areas. I will experiment with that.