Basically title.

I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.

  • jbk
    22·
    9 months ago

    uses its own libraries and not system libraries, want to play the hit new AAA game with steam flatpak? get fucked it requires a mesa commit that was merged 8 hours a go and you’re stuck on 23.0.4 and can’t use the git release.

    Can’t you just install a git snapshot of mesa in a flatpak and use that? Then it’d be an upside

    • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
      3·
      9 months ago

      The downside is having to do that manually. Kind of ruins the whole point of it. Flatpaks will remain out-dated until the maintainer has time to push it out. Forever behind.

      • jbk
        1·
        9 months ago

        There’s the org.freedesktop.Platform.GL{,32}.mesa-git runtime(?) so that seems wrong. What app always needs the latest snapshot mesa version anyway?

          • jbk
            1·
            9 months ago

            That doesn’t mean it constantly requires a mesa git snapshot.