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Why do you need Flatpak for sandboxing?

I really dislike Flatpak for installing multiple identical copies of the dependencies.

Just give me some easier to use tools to configure the access that each application has.



> Why do you need Flatpak for sandboxing?

You don't, but as far as I know, Flatpak or Snap are the only practical, low-effort ways to do it on standard distros. There's nothing stopping flatpak-like security from being combined with traditional package management and shared libraries. Perhaps we will see this in the future, but I don't see much activity in this area at the moment.




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