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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Flatpak is not single binary, Flatpaks have shared runtime (For example Freedesktop, GNOME, KDE runtimes)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Provided that flatpack has a common parent container, which is not always the case. More precisely, it almost never does. Because someone updates flatpack to new versions of the parent containers, and someone else does not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

More precisely, it almost never does.

I don't know any flatpak in my system that don't use runtime (I have around 50 flatpak apps installed), or am I misunderstanding your point

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

runtime have versions too. If one runtime version use only one flatpack than exactly same as just static linking binary. Flatpack have just docker layeredfs and firejail in base.

id: org.gnome.Dictionary runtime: org.gnome.Platform runtime-version: '45' <- here sdk: org.gnome.Sdk command: gnome-dictionary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

for some reason, i have both gnome platform 46 and gnome platform 47 installed in my system. that's probably it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I see problem in that only in unmaintained apps (like org.gnome.Dictionary), I have only GNOME 47 & 48 for example and both of them still updating

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

In the initial stage of shared library support, everything was exactly the same. Let's look at it in 5 years... When some soft will archived and die, some stop maintaining, some new crated and brakes old dependencies...

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