This is one of the biggest annoyances I’ve come across with them for sure.
This is one of the biggest annoyances I’ve come across with them for sure.
Generally using only a few flatpaks is where it’s generally “bloaty”. Adding more actually balances out the equation ans you have more apps using generally shared runtimes.
complicate packaging, XML sucks (are there good editors or something?), I heard that the Flatpak builder is better for certain languages.
What has XML got to do with it? Flatpak manifests are either JSON (not great but OK) or YAML, which is great.
Probably JSON. I haven’t been involved in Flatpak for a long time but I’ve never seen XML. JSON is quite close to XML in it’s layout sometimes I find so easily mistaken.