On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 15:40 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: > This is a slight tangent, but by "remove Fedora packages", do you > mean > actually remove them from the distribution entirely or simply not > show the > packaged version in e.g. GNOME Software in favor of the upstream > Flatpak? > The latter makes sense to me, the former seems potentially > controversial. I was thinking remove the Fedora package. What's the point in maintaining a secret Fedora package for a graphical app, when we're going to be presenting a different version of that app to users? And as Josh says, this would also create confusion regarding where to report bugs, and also confusion when users have two different sets of bugs depending on whether you use a Fedora package or the upstream Flatpak. But maybe we will need to keep the Fedora packages to support spins, e.g. we probably don't want to start removing packages before KDE grows support for Flatpaks in its graphical installer. There's no plan to systematically go around removing Fedora packages in favor of Flatpaks; rather, we plan to do this on a case-by-case basis at the request of upstreams that have developed Flatpaks and want those Flatpaks to be available in Fedora. Package maintainers would be allowed to dispute the change, again on a case-by-case basis, but I don't expect that to happen often. We're also planning to allow third- party RPMs to replace Fedora-provided RPMs following the same procedure. Full details at [1], just keep in mind this is a WIP document in the preproposal stage; i.e. we were not planning to propose it on this list yet. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Third_party_software_proposal -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
