Issue #3445: Change: Filter Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic Desktops - fesco - Pagure.io
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In short, this change proposal seeks to get rid of Fedora Flatpaks for Atomic desktops. Fedora Flatpaks will still be used for the preinstalled apps, but all (or most?) other Fedora Flatpaks would be hidden by default.

Note this proposal does not enable Flathub, that’s a separate Change proposal (currently not up for FESCO voting): https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/proposal-enable-flathub-by-default/157011

  • LeafletOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Personally, I am not a fan of this proposal. I’m one of the few people who actually like Fedora Flatpaks. I like

    • The focus on FOSS
    • The focus on more open software (standards that are not patented or have royalties)
    • More consistent build practices
    • Security (all apps use the latest Fedora Platform runtimes, pull all their dependencies from Fedora repos)
    • Better deduplication (vendored dependencies are all RPMs, Flathub dependencies may pull different versions or built differently which would limited deduplication)

    Though they’re not perfect. Perhaps the biggest issue is the lack of codec support. Personally, I think it would be better to rework this proposal to instead filter out the footguns in the Fedora Flatpaks, such as media players and browsers.

    I also don’t believe there’s any plans in the proposal to allow the user to easily remove the filter in the GUI, even though there is a toggle to make Flathub available in the GUI. The two proposals would in effect make it more difficult to obtain software curated by Fedora.