On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 7:34 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com> wrote:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UnfilteredFlathub
Note that I am processing this proposal past the deadline because 1. I
think it could reasonably be considered a Self-Contained Change
proposal and 2. the reasons outlined by Mattias in another thread:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.o...
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes
process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive
community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved
by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.
== Summary ==
Fedora Workstation's existing
[
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/workstation-working-group/third-part...
third party repo feature] allows users to enable a selection of
software repos that are hosted by external organizations. This
selection has included a filtered version of Flathub since F35, which
provides access to a small number of Flathub apps. This change would
remove the filtering from our Flathub offering, so that users can
enable a complete version of Flathub using the third party
repositories feature. In the graphical software manager app, Flathub
packages will only be selected by default when no Fedora package is
available.
I appreciate the work that will go into making sure that software
provided by Fedora will always take priority over third-party
flatpaks, thank you for working on that.
Also, given that it is now apparently considered "allowed" to enable
unfiltered flathub with the "Enable third-party repositories" switch,
I wonder if that reasoning also applies to the equivalent situation
for RPMFusion repos? The "Enable third-party repositories" switch only
enables "filtered" repos (containing only RPMs for proprietary NVidia
drivers and the Steam client), so following the same reasoning, it
should now be possible to enable "unfiltered" RPMFusion repos with
that switch instead, as well?
Fabio