Re: [Linphone-users] flatpak reinstall

[Karl Schmidt]

On 11/20/19 4:44 PM, John White wrote:
> So,
>
> A few minutes ago I uninstalled flatpak linphone and then reinstalled it, using the linphone web 
> site install url. I did not lose the addresses. So far I have made 3 calls without it freezing so 
> perhaps this helped. Sure hope so.
>
> John

I tried a flatpak - what a nightmare - never again...
I found it easier just to build a Debian package - Desktop 4.1.1 - Qt5.11.3


flatpak is a bad idea for many reasons - security is a joke, but worse, when applications use their 
own libs - they don't get security updates - nor bug fixes found in other code that shares the lib. 
It is particularly bad for the Linux ecosystem - it is the polishing of shared libs that makes code 
robust - the particular difference from the Windoze world. There is a place to use 
snaps/AppImage/flatpak - to test something to see if it is worth building - but flatpak appears to 
be the worst one and non of them should be used for a working program.  Using custom libs is what 
makes so much of the Windoze programs insecure/buggy.  ( I've been running a Debian desktop for 20 
years now - most users don't understand why these paks are such a bad idea. )




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