Re: (Maybe slightly OT) Flatpak

On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 2:58 AM Johan Vromans <[email protected]> wrote:

> It is rumoured that "Flatpak is the future of apps on Linux". In any case,
> it is an interesting and powerful way to package (complex) applications.
>
> Much to my surprise, searching for flatpak+perl yields virtually nothing.
>
> Maybe anyone here has some more information on packaging perl applications
> with flatpak?
>

Don't really have a technical answer to your question, but in my experience
flatpak is used most often for graphical applications though I don't think
that's required. It doesn't necessarily make sense for a pure-perl Perl
application since that's just a set of perl scripts/modules, but I could
see it being useful for XS perl modules and applications that use them.
Basically any case where you might use an rpm/deb but want to make
something installable to any distribution.

-Dan