Alexander Larsson

Its very much possible to build flatpaks from debs or rpms. See e.g. https://git.collabora.com/cgit/user/smcv/flatdeb.git/tree/README for a debian version or the work fedora atomic workstation is doing for an rpm based...

Or alternatively, we can go the snappy route and pick a distro and distro version and declare (like canonical) that everyone must use that base. I don't think this is...

It is open source / free software oriented.

I’m not sure what you mean by that? Is flatpak more open source if we forbid packaging non-free software with it? We want the core software to be flexible and...

@gasinvein Its not that easy though. Its like saying you should be able to use debian packages in fedora, because that would be very convenient for fedora users. Its not...

Eh, if you have any specific ideas, those would be welcome.

Yes, that is possible, and e.g. fedora is planning to do that. However, anyone doing this is now essentially maintaining a runtime, and I wouldn't call that "easy". You went...

That's just creating it. Maintaining means regularly updating it when there are bugfixes and security updates, accepting and handling bug reports, testing to ensure new versions keep apps working. It...

They do the work.

And, its not an automatic thing. There are a lot of smalle ways a core snap or a flatpak runtime differs from the host install, and when such cause problems...