On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 3:41 PM, <nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net> wrote:
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".
I think this already happened. Applications like GNOME Recipes are
only available via Flatpaks. The Workstation WG did not package it for
Fedora 26. I don't know if other GNOME applications are in a similar state. :(
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