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Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps? (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by staticlifetime@kbin.social to c/linux@kbin.social

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Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs?

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[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

CLI applications are not feasible as Flatpaks.

Simply wrong, there are already lots of CLI applications on flatpak.

[–] atmur@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Having to prefix commands with "flatpak run org.whoever.whatever..." gets old quickly, and setting aliases to get around it isn't user friendly. It's certainly possible, it's just not practical (which may have been a better word to use than "feasable" in my first comment).

[–] TGRush@forum.fail 2 points 1 year ago

Let's paraphrase to "CLI applications are quite cumbersome to use under Flatpak as per the current implementation".

Unless you set up your own aliases, you'll have to write out commands like flatpak run ..., and if you don't know the package name yet you'll need to run flatpak list --app first as well

I hope that in the future, Flatpak gets some improvements for exporting CLI utilities into the user's environment.