Article 68MH1 [$] Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

[$] Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks

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jake
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The Flatpak package format promises tobring "the future of apps on Linux", but a Linux distribution likeFedora already provides packages in its native format-and builtto its specifications. Flatpaks that come from upstream projects may ormay not follow the packaging guidelines, philosophy, and practices so theyexist in their own world, separate from the packages that come directlyfrom Fedora. But those worlds havecollided to a certain extent over the past year to two. Recently, apackager announced their plans to stop packaging the Bottles tool, used for runningWindows programs in Wine-based containers on Linux, in favor ofrecommending that Fedora users install the upstream Flatpak.
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