Re: Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Thu Jun27'24 11:58:54AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> From: Neal Becker 
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:58:54 -0400
> To: Community support for Fedora users 
> CC: Ranjan Maitra 
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users 
> Subject: Re: Using Signal-Desktop w Fedora 40
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 9:12 AM Ranjan Maitra via users <
> [e-mail]> wrote:
> > Neal,
> >
> > I am aware of the flatpak option, though I have used this alternative repo
> > for the past four years when I started using Signal, and found it to work
> > well. What is the benefit of using flatpak?
> >
> > Ranjan
>
> flatpak is supported for Fedora and is getting regular updates.  What other
> options are there?  I saw the suggestion to try and use a suse repo.  That
> sounds like a recipe for trouble to me.  Fedora packages are tested
> together to ensure dependencies are compatible.  Between suse and fedora I
> think you're liable to run into dependency troubles.

Just because the host is download.suse.org does not mean that the package is not built for Fedora. This repo has been around for at least four years and eight Fedora versions, and it has never broken. Also, the discussion on github seemed to indicate care in getting things to work with Fedora. And this package has got regular updates over hundreds of signal versions (which seem to update very frequently).

I do not see a benefit in having another way to install packages in addition to dnf. This repo simplifies things, and has worked for me without fail so far. I am sure others have reasons to prefer flatpak.

At the same time, it would be nice to have signal in the official repo.

Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan
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