• ryannathans@aussie.zone
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    7 days ago

    I would assume because the whole model of encrypting your drives and installing bootloaders doesn’t blend well with the flatpak sandbox

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      You can give a Flatpak the necessary permissions to modify disks. All the permissions needed by Veracrypt could be granted.

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        7 days ago

        I haven’t used veracrypt to encrypt linux system partitions. Does it do all the decryption in user space somehow?

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        and then what’s the benefit of having veracrypt as a flatpak package? that it can be used with older dependencies? if so, is that a good thing to have for things that modify system startup?

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          and then what’s the benefit of having veracrypt as a flatpak package?

          Flatpaks is a universal package format, it works almost everywhere. Also, there are immutable distros, that use flatpak as the default package format.