[arch-general] Announcing pacpak

[Damjan Georgievski]

On 10 July 2016 at 11:05, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
<pelzflorian at pelzflorian.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> A specter is haunting the GNU/Linux ecosystem: the specter of per-user
> containerization. Software like Flatpak and Snappy promise fully
> sandboxed GNU/Linux application bundles (instead of merely launching an
> application with fewer privileges but without hiding the operating
> system, like Bubblewrap or Firejail do). Bundles ship with the version
> of their dependencies which they need.

Ubuntu is doing something similar it seems
https://bregmatter.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/x11-applications-and-unity-8/

This is for their non-deb (deb-less?) distro version, they install
debs in containers,
each getting their own XMir server. Good for non-trustworthy or exposed apps.



-- 
damjan