More Reliance on Systemd for Flatpaks?

25 May, 2026

Just read a balanced and interesting write-up on what happened recently when devs were outlining the future of flatpak, (possibly) integrating more tightly with systemd and the obvious reactions from everyone not directly involved to that.

I've always been a shill for those technologies, but giving the reactions and opinions on both sides of the fence I'm seriously reconsidering that.

Most of all I'm very disappointed at the conversation and the levels of bile thrown at each other. The zealots are among us, unfortunately.

Btw, Slackware, Gentoo, VoidLinux and Alpine have a very strong native package base, with very active user participation. They basically don't need flatpak.

And neither do Nix, OpenSuse or Arch if you'd like to be on the systemd side of things.

I'm actively gonna get rid of flatpaks, I'm already packaging some applications into Slackware packages.