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Flatpak Pre-Installation Approaches (blog.sebastianwick.net)

submitted 16 hours ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/linux@programming.dev

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Together with my then-colleague Kalev Lember, I recently added support for pre-installing Flatpak applications. It sounds fancy, but it is conceptually very simple: Flatpak reads configuration files from several directories to determine which applications should be pre-installed. It then installs any missing applications and removes any that are no longer supposed to be pre-installed (with some small caveats).

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What's the advantage of this over a whole-system provisioning system like ansible?

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 5 hours ago

From what I can tell, you wouldn't use it instead of Ansible or another automation system, but rather just support for a config file you can plot in to make setting up automation with any automation system easier by allowing you to put it into a file rather than a gigantic Flatpak install command.