Re: F37 Change Proposal: Unfiltered Flathub (System-Wide Change)

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On Wednesday, 29 June 2022 at 20:25, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29 2022 at 08:06:28 PM +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
> <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 1. GNOME Software need to be patched to prefer RPMs over Flatpaks for
> > non-ostree Fedora variants, because it will replace Fedora packages with
> > Flatpaks. I think "Fedora RPM > Fedora Flatpak > Flathub Flatpak" for
> > Fedora Workstation and "Fedora Flatpak > Flathub Flatpak > Fedora RPM"
> > for Silverblue/Kinoite will be better.
> 
> GNOME Software already has a hidden setting for this:
> 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/blob/0709681441daf6b182a062d24c543174346b36d8/data/org.gnome.software.gschema.xml#L137
> 
> It defaults to Flatpaks because they are sandboxed and are much safer than
> unsandboxed applications.

... *when* they are sandboxed ...
Unfortunately, in many cases, they aren't.

> However, I believe Flatpaks built from Fedora RPMs should take precedence
> over Flatpaks built from Flathub. Flathub should only be preferred when
> there is no Fedora Flatpak available.

+1

Regards,
Dominik
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