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.

    • jan teli
      4•1 year ago

      Clunky as in flatpak run io.neovim.nvim instead of just nvim

        • @oldfart@lemm.ee
          2•1 year 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.socialEnglish
        0•1 year 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

    • @oldfart@lemm.ee
      1•1 year ago

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