Yep , those are different philosophies , but I doubt upstream packaging does ruin anything . It ' s an additional option , distributions are still expected to package whatever they want . In fact , distributions can finally package whatever whey really want , instead of having to package everything . It provides the option to distributors to focus QA on the things they care about , leaving QA for less interesting for the distributor applications up to upstream . It ' s a winwin situation as far as I can see . Given that I ' ve been involved with the developer and packaging community for quite some time now , I know how much effort is spent there and I also know how much distribution maintainers can be fond of flatpak . The nice thing is that you can in fact you ' re encouraged to base your flatpaks on existing distribution packages , be them from Debian , Fedora or Guix , so don ' t expect distributions to disappear anytime soon . DThe funny thing is that if you ' re an app developer and also a Guix enthusiast , you now can make a lot of your users use Guix without them knowing about it , whatever their installed distribution is