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1. Oro "it's flatpak time" 🏳️‍🌈 (orowith2os@tech.lgbt)'s status on Monday, 12-Jun-2023 18:49:15 JST Oro "it's flatpak time" 🏳️‍🌈

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   @jannem

   No, we aren't going to support CLI apps. We can make the experience better for limited use cases, but for the vast majority of CLI apps, Flatpak is not relevant.

   CLI applications are completely different from GUI apps. They *need* unrestricted access to the system, otherwise they fail to work. There's no equivalent of portals for the CLI, nor will there be.

   Flatpak also has no plans to support installing with the traditional package names. This is an anti-feature. The closest you'll get is this, which allows exporting multiple commands: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/pull/5404

   As I stated in that pull request regarding a comment of similar type:

   "No. This would conflict with the system binaries, and several apps exporting the same command could be messy."

   If you want something like Flatpak for CLI apps, look at Nix. It handles things much better while providing the same level of dependency sandboxing.