On 29/06/2022 20:25, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
GNOME Software already has a hidden setting for this:
Yes and it should be configured to "['RPM', 'flatpak']" for all
non-ostree Fedora variants (Workstation, Spins).
When the Flathub filtering is removed, most Fedora packages will be
silently replaced by Flatpaks, some of them very low quality (DEB
rebuids) because the Flathub versions are always greater than in Fedora.
It defaults to Flatpaks because they are sandboxed and are much safer
than unsandboxed applications.
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https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aflathub+filesystem%3Dhome&type=code
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https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aflathub+filesystem%3Dhost&type=code
However, I believe Flatpaks built from Fedora RPMs should take
precedence over Flatpaks built from Flathub.
Fedora Flatpaks are almost dead. Let's check this page:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/releases/
Fedora 36: 22867 (RPMs) vs. 104 (Flatpaks).
Fedora 35: 29801 (RPMs) vs. 104 (Flatpaks).
Fedora 34: 35742 (RPMs) vs. 92 (Flatpaks).
Flathub should only be preferred when there is no Fedora Flatpak
available.
I don't see it in the proposal.
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Sincerely,
Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly(a)easycoding.org)