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[$] Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks
Tuesday February 7, 2023. 09:58 PM , from LWN.net
The Flatpak package format promises to
bring 'the future of apps on Linux', but a Linux distribution like Fedora already provides packages in its native format—and built to its specifications. Flatpaks that come from upstream projects may or may not follow the packaging guidelines, philosophy, and practices so they exist in their own world, separate from the packages that come directly from Fedora. But those worlds have collided to a certain extent over the past year to two. Recently, a packager announced their plans to stop packaging the Bottles tool, used for running Windows programs in Wine-based containers on Linux, in favor of recommending that Fedora users install the upstream Flatpak.
https://lwn.net/Articles/922387/
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