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

[Mica Semrick]

On 5/24/20 12:57 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> It seems all wrong to me somehow.


Perhaps you should read more about flatpak if you do not understand it.

> Either (like Appimage) you download a file (downloading any old way
> you want, you usual way of doing it, ftp, wget, whatever) and it's a
> standalone program with no dependencies*OR*  you have something that
> uses the distribution's standard format for handling dependencies etc.

Flatpak uses flatpak portals to hook into your system. If your distro 
provides the flatpak package, then you have the necessary means to begin 
using flatpak. Flatpak is repo based, like a traditional distro package 
manager, and you can also download one-off builds, similar to how you 
can download a single deb/rpm to your system and install it. flatpak has 
its own dependency tree/dependency management. At its heart, flatpak is 
a layering system: there is the base freedesktop package, then a 
kde/gnome layer on top of that, then the app layer on top of that.

> It sounds like a FlatPak is some sort of horrible halfway house.

Perhaps you should come to a full understand of the technology before 
throwing your opinion into the mix.