An exciting development for this Linux app sandboxing and distribution tech. This would also help improve Google Chrome/Chromium support outside the likes of RPM and Debian based distributions with a cleaner packaging experience.
That’s what he said.
I’d be more impressed if they stopped bundling random crap. It’s their unwillingness to use upstream’s dependencies and toolchains that makes Chromium a nightmare to package on Gentoo, and flatpaks are not going to fix that. They bundle clang, rust, and so many additional libraries that the “must keep bundled version to prevent breakage” list is almost 300 items long. This is not the correct way to ensure reproducibility, guys.
chromium seems to serve as a basis for google dominance in the browser space so it makes sense that they would intentionally fuck with it in a way that doesn’t let others have full control.