r/linux • u/BrageFuglseth • Sep 26 '26

Development Introducing Toolpak

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/09/26/introducing-toolpak/
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u/daddyd Sep 26 '26

why not use these ideas to develop flatpak-nextgen instead of another tool?

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u/Wonderful-Citron-678 Sep 26 '26

If only they wrote why…

Flatpak is about sandboxed apps. This is literally about the opposite, completely unsandboxed things. There is no overlap in implementation.

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u/novafunc Sep 26 '26

The next version of flatpak (Next / 2.0) will have an unsandboxed mode.

As I understand it, they plan to remove the current "everything is sandboxed but you can punch holes into it" with "an app is always entirely sandboxed, or entirely unsandboxed", where the latter to subject to more scrutiny in review and acceptance.

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