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The Future of Flatpak | Sebastian Wick @ LAS 2025 (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 days ago by that_leaflet@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] nycki@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

is this available in text form?

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Don't believe so, best that's currently available is skimming through the video to look at the slides.

Here's my short summary of the presentation, I tried to denote what's being worked on (open PR), what's kinda being done (WIP), and things stuff they'd like to be done in the future (wishlist). May be somewhat wrong.

Flatpak is stagnant
Red Hat is working on a better way to preinstall flatpak apps (open PR)
Flatpak should is slowly moving towards OCI and away from ostree (more tooling available, don't need to maintain their own tools)
Better permission handling that is more backwards compatible (open PR)
Should directly use Pipewire instead of Pulseaudio (WIP)
Allow user namespaces in flatpak sandbox (WIP)
Move dbus proxying into dbus brokers (wishlist)
Improve network sandboxing (wishlist)
Improve drivers handling, currently drivers need to be built for each runtime, could cause issues if using EOL app on new hardware (wishlist)
Work on portals directly improves flatpak

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why is it stagnant?

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Major people of the project had moved on. It’s being maintained, getting security fixes, but pull requests are slow to be merged.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Should directly use Pipewire instead of Pulseaudio I hope they plan on keeping pulse for the foreseeable future. Pipewire is great and all but pulse is very entrenched, I still maintain quite a bit of systems that are pulse only.

[–] that_leaflet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

That is planned. But pulse is not secure, so exposing it is not great.