On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 7:37 PM Vipul Siddharth
<siddharthvipul1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Given that flathub provides similar / overlapping content compared to
RPMFusion (or often, even more "legally problematic" than what's
available from RPMFusion, i.e. prebuilt blobs), doesn't this same
reasoning also apply there? I.e. can Fedora enable the full rpmfusion
repositories by default, as well, instead of only the separate
("filtered") repositories for the proprietary NVidia drivers and the
Steam client?
Note that the proposal is not about enabling Flathub, only about its filtering. As far as
I understand it remains off by default.
But RPMfusion was my first thought , too. We don't even ship the repo definitions, do
we, and enabling "third party software" in Gnome software center does not enable
RPMfusion. Why not?
My second thought was about packaging. Why should I inverst my free time into rpm
packaging, especially unbundling, caring about dependent packages etc. - i.e. evreything
which makes a distro a distro - when the preferred "packaging" switches to
flatpaks?
"Additionally, the filtered Flathub has not been popular with users.
[...]
Dropping the filter will resolve this criticism."
While we do our packaging work *for* the users, that argument really doesn't convice
me. Give them "curl | sudo sh" because it's so simple and provides more
applications? Let npm and cargo and pip install right into /usr? Much easier and so many
apps! What could go wrong?