cplusplus@programming.dev to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-220 days agoWhy Veracrypt not in flatpak?message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down124
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minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·20 days agoI would assume because the whole model of encrypting your drives and installing bootloaders doesn’t blend well with the flatpak sandbox
minus-squareLemongrab@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·20 days agoYou can give a Flatpak the necessary permissions to modify disks. All the permissions needed by Veracrypt could be granted.
minus-squareryannathans@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·20 days agoI haven’t used veracrypt to encrypt linux system partitions. Does it do all the decryption in user space somehow?
minus-squareReversalHatchery@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 days agoand 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?
minus-squareJustMarkov@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·20 days ago 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.
I would assume because the whole model of encrypting your drives and installing bootloaders doesn’t blend well with the flatpak sandbox
You can give a Flatpak the necessary permissions to modify disks. All the permissions needed by Veracrypt could be granted.
I haven’t used veracrypt to encrypt linux system partitions. Does it do all the decryption in user space somehow?
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?
Flatpaks is a universal package format, it works almost everywhere. Also, there are immutable distros, that use flatpak as the default package format.