On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 11:06 +0000, Christian Stadelmann wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using flatpak packages for a while and like the idea of > bwrap pretty much, mainly because it improves privilege separation > and management. I'm not 100% convinced on flatpak, but it keeps > improving. Anyway I think both projects have completely separate > (though compatible) goals and might need to be handled separately. > Now I am curious: > > 1. Do you plan on sandboxing GUI applications shipped through > rpm/dnf? If yes, is there a timeline? Are regressions (sandboxed app > vs. same app without sandbox) considered bugs, and if yes, where > should I file bug reports? > > 2. Do you plan replacing the GNOME packages shipped through rpm/dnf > by packages shipped through flatpak? Or is this an option for the far > future? Or do you want to keep shipping two separate ways of > installing GUI applications? > Thanks for asking. First, bubblewrap is really an internal implementation detail of flatpak, and doesn't really need any plans per se. The plans for flatpak in Fedora on a high level look like this: 1) gnome-software gains support for managing flatpak apps (installing, updating, uninstalling apps, runtimes and remotes). This part will be in pretty good shape in Fedora 26, and you should be able to use it with existing upstream flatpak repositories, like the ones listed on www.flatpak.org. 2) We are not planning to sandbox rpms. The sandboxing is intrinsically tied to using flatpak at runtime for setting up the container, and running the app in it. And the runtime concept does not really have an equivalent in the rpm world. 3) For reporting issues, as always: use your best judgement. Report bugs where they are likely to be seen by the right people. I don't think comparing rpm and flatpak versions item by item and filing a huge amount of 'regression' bugs is going to be useful. 4) We are planning to generate flatpaks from existing rpms for desktop application. For this, we will be reusing as much of the modularity initiative as we can. Owen Taylor and David King are working on this for F27. _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
