On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 10:07 -0500, Orrin McGill wrote: > Finally some substance, now how do I get a flatpack sandbox to > recognise the printers available on the system. > > Note to self: do not use flatpack versions.
Snaps and Flatpacks could run in a development mode, fore example: "D-Bus access Access to the entire bus with --socket=system-bus or --socket=session- bus should be avoided, unless the application is a development tool." - https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html And as always for all those Linux unique crap, the obligatory blame other for our unfinished moronism: "you should file individual bugs for each application on their Flathub pages, as the way they enumerate and access printers is likely different for each one of them, and the problem wouldn't be a generic Flatpak or portal problem." - https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/341 You unlikely will find such unfinshed container approaches on other UNIXoid platforms, such as FreeBSD. While I'm in favour of Linux, I anyway cast an eye on UNIXoid platforms that still stay to a standard. You will not find pulseaudio, a flatpack or a snap thingy etc. on any of my Linux installs. While I'm willing to use something that is far away from UNIX alike philosophy, such as systemd, I'm not willing to use crap such as pulseaudio, since upstream does blame ALSA drivers that work when using ALSA, if they don't work when using pulseaudio. There's no advantage when using containers such as sanps or flatpacks, when it is rocket since to get an app working without issues or to switch to a development mode to get them working. Note! Linux has got no standard. De facto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base isn't a standard. Avoid to divate more from common sense, than absolutely needed. We are more or less forced to use systemd, but we don't need to use something like a flatpack. If you run in unresolvable soname issues when trying to build latest software from upstream, migrate to a rolling release distro. I'm using Arch Linux. It does follow upstream and at worst I sometimes need to maintain a few outdated libraries on my own, to install them parallel to the latest and greatest libraries provided by the rolling release's repositories. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
