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.

        • oldfart@lemm.ee
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          4 months ago

          I don’t need to do it with native-installed programs. And they are properly integrated with the OS, if you install them:

          1. You get a menu entry in gui
          2. You get a binary or a wrapper in /usr/bin
      • aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social
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        4 months ago

        Yep. But,

        sudo tee /usr/local/bin/nvim <<EOF
        #!/bin/sh
        flatpak run io.neovim.nvim "$@"
        EOF
        chmod +x /usr/local/bin/nvim
        

        (I haven’t tested this, that I use similar code for a different program)

        It sure would be nice if flatpak bundled some functionality to do this for you, though.

        @oldfart@lemm.ee

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      4 months ago

      There is no .desktop menu entry and i need to remember a lengthy fqdn which does not autocomplete, great ui