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

[Stuart T Rogers]

Having read a bit about flatpak now I do have some concerns.

Firstly it seems that the actual deliverable will be considerably larger 
than the normal install of Digikam say on openSUSE because it will need 
to bundle in all the required other software it needs whether or not the 
base OS already has the correct levels and versions installed.

Secondly while it runs in a sandbox it will likely increase the memory 
requirement needed over what would normally be used because all the 
additional code needed for execution will be loaded even if it already 
exists and is loaded in the OS.

Thirdly this seems to me to be a sledgehammer to crack a nut since I 
have not heard of any security breaches being caused by running Digikam, 
yes some other applications maybe should be sandboxed because of what 
they do but I do not see the need for this with Digikam.

Lastly it needs additional software installed on my system which 
currently I do not use. Appimage does not need anything in addition to 
be able to test a new version of Digikam.

This seems to me to be a solution looking for a purpose.

Stuart
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