By the way, I assume that Alex will see this thread tomorrow and respond here, as far as I
know he's done the most recent work on GNOME tooling in preparation for this.
Also worth linking to Allan's design thoughts:
http://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2014/07/10/sandboxed-applications-for-gnome/
http://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2014/07/23/sandboxed-applications-for-gnome-p...
And I forgot to mention, parallel to the rpm-ostree discussion, shipping apps as
containers would also require fundamental redesign work in PackageKit.
I also forgot to mention fonts, codecs, and input methods before.