[digiKam-users] Future of digiKam bundles...

[Carlos Echenique]

Flatpaks are generally hosted on www.flathub.org, but it is not a
requirement. You can self-host the .flatpakref file yourself. The flatpak
installation environment is managed by the distro and is not the
developer's problem. Once you have your app converted to flatpak,
the dependencies and libraries are all handled by the flatpak system.


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On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:18 AM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> > FlatPak is a bundle file as AppImage, but with a better integration in
> > Linux system. There is a door open through a socket to communicate
> > with DBus interface from host.
> >
> > The FlatPak file, as i know, must be installed on your system using a
> > delegate application. KDE propose Discover program for that, but i'm
> > sure that other application exists.
> >
> That's rather important, I'm sure not everyone who runs Digikam runs
> KDE.
>
> > From the delegate application you install the bundle as a native
> > package (RPM or DEB). In opposite to package, the bundles include all
> > dependencies required to run the target application.
> >
> So why can't the FlatPack simply come as an RPM or DEB itself?  Even
> better why can't it be in the normal repository for the distribution?
>
> --
> Chris Green
> ·
>
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