On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

I'm also worried about lifecycle issues here. What if some popular
upstream makes a popular Flatpak, we ditch the RPM packaging, and then
upstream stops updating it, or does a horrible job - how do we get
_back_?

At the moment the design goal is saying that doesn't matter so it'll keep on running. There's no arbitrary method of disqualifying a Flatpak package, e.g. with some kind of versioning method --> Flatpak 2 on Fedora could support Flatpak 1 and 2 package applications, or it could refuse to run Flatpak 1.

For that matter, are all Flatpak applications going to be third party?
I've been assuming that we'll have a way to package software in this
way *within Fedora*. Having a large application ecosystem is key, and
honestly, I don't see that as likely without our _own_ effort.

Exactly.

Chris Murphy