Jiri Eischmann píše v Út 08. 11. 2016 v 19:14 +0100: > Hi, > I'm trying to find a way to make installation of flatpak applications > as simple as possible. LibreOffice for Flatpak has been out for a > couple of months and the feedback is that the installation process is > too complex. It has improved with GNOME Software 3.22 supporting > flatpak bundle installation. But you still have to manually add a > remote with required runtime and install that runtime if it's not > already installed. > > One solution would be giving apps an option to add a remote and > install > the required runtime from it, but Alex sees that as a potential > security issue. > > Another solution would be shipping Fedora Workstation with trusted > remotes with flatpak runtimes enabled. It's not a long list right > now, > pretty much just: FreeDesktop.org, GNOME, and KDE. Vast majority of > existing flatpak apps are using runtimes provided by these. If those > remotes were enabled in Workstation by default, then installing a > flatpak bundle such as LibreOffice would be just a matter of double- > clicking the file and approving the operation because > Software/Flatpak > could figure out the rest including installation of a runtime from > one > of the trusted remotes. > If the required runtime were not in one of the trusted remotes, the > user would be told that the runtime was not found in trusted remotes > and he'd have to install it manually before installing the app. But > that's not the case for many apps now. > > It's basically enabling 3rd party software sources which requires an > approval of the Workstation Working Group if I understand it > correctly. > So I'd like to propose this for discussion in the working group. > > Jiri We just found out that there is still one prerequisite for this missing. Neither flatpak nor GNOME Software can install the required runtime even if there is a repo, that contains it, enabled. Jiri
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