Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

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De: "Owen Taylor"

> But I want to be clear that there is no *proposal* on the
> table to ship things Flatpak only, and *no proposed timescale*. And
> there won't be until we know how the tools work out for packagers, how
> Flatpak usage works out for users, and we have a significant body of
> Fedora packages built as Flatpaks to look at things like installed size
> and network usage.

Then I'm glad there is absolutely no plan to preempt flatpack technical assessment by shipping one or more GNOME apps as flatpack-only, leaving Fedora users for whom flatpack does not work yet behind, and bypassing distribution consensus processes.

This kind of action would be really divisive¹, especially while simultaneously seeking Fedora endorsement.

Best regards,

¹ Those shortcuts rarely end well. Even when the missing bits are eventually added, users have a long memory of being left in the dust because their use-cases are deemed "wrong" or "uninteresting".

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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