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So... flatpak! Hear me out on this. A Distribution that only packs the bare minimum for a dekstop, and the repositories only have a few different window managers to choose from as well as coreutils, the kernel, and a few system utilities.
The rest of the package management is done entirely with flatpak and compiling from git repositories. So all browsers, office programs, IDE's, etc. come entirely from flatpak and self-compiled software
>muh unix philosophy
aside, from that, would this be a viable distro? I'm honestly considering creating something like this.
One could just do this with gentoo + flatpak I suppose.
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>>60233416
well it doesn't exist yet. Flatpak is a binary package management utility that allows an application to receive updates directly from the maintainer rather than the distribution's repositories.
What i'm proposing is a distribution that uses flatpak instead of traditional package management for most applications.
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>>60233372
This is cancer.
I bet the people who came up with flatpak also thought pip was a good idea
Fucking retards.
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>Is Flatpak tied to systemd?
>No. Versions of flatpak 0.6.10 relied on systemd for cgroups setup, but this is no longer required.
>Flatpak is designed to run inside a desktop session and relies on certain session services, such as a dbus session bus and a systemd --user instance.
POETTERING!!!!!
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>>60233372
Sounds like windows, and no reason to use Linux over it
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>>60233511
What's wrong with pip? Should I not use it?
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>>60233527
you know, aside from the fact that you can read the code for linux. but what do I know.
to me this sounds like (gnu/)linux with better stability since all packages bundle their own dependencies. i.e updating one app CANT break any others
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>>60233557
>each app brings it's own dependencies
Sounds like a good way to eat up disk space and promote laziness by letting devs use out of date dependencies. It will end up being Windows/Linux. I'd probably test it out of curiosity.
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>>60233513
I have it on my Void install without any trace of systemd *shrug*
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>>60233372
Sounds like windows, and no reason to use Linux over it
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>>60233372
"why flatpak" will they ask..
because theres also snap and appimage and who knows what else, so as soon as a flatpak distro comes along the others will also create a distro with their own system..
which brings yet more fragmentation..
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This is insane
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