Can flatpak wrap low-level library dependecies?

[Emmanuele Bassi]

Hi;

On 13 July 2016 at 11:14, Robert Munteanu <robert.munteanu at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm investigating wrapping Brackets [1] using flatpak. The Brackets
> build is already pretty self-contained, but it depends on outdated
> versions of libgcrypt and libudev, which are no longer available on
> more recent Linux systems.
>
> Is this dependency problem something that I can avoid using flatpak?
>
> For reference, the requirements are
>
>   libgcrypt.so.11 ( but I have libgcrypt.so.20 )

You can bundle whichever libraries you need while building a Flatpak
of your application.

See: http://flatpak.org/developer.html

Though…

>   libudev.so.0 ( but I have libudev.so.1 )

… why does a text editor require access to udev?

There's no direct access to devices in the Flatpak sandbox, and thus
you cannot use libudev.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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