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[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Weren't there talks about removing the Fedora flatpaks entirely in favor of a regular Flathub access?

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 3 points 9 months ago

There's always talk about that (see alternative 2), but that could block packaging core apps as Flatpaks.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Centralising around Flathub seems to me like it defeats the point of flatpak being able to have multiple repositories.

[–] koen@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

I think that besides unverified packages, lack of repositories (for example, for FOSS only) is the main problem of Flatpak rn

[–] ashley@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

I wonder if selectively mirroring flathub is an option. The point of the fedora flatpak repo is to only have open source applications isn’t it?

[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 1 points 9 months ago

There's a priority mechanism in Fedora/flatpak but when I tried to give priority to flathub it was ignored.

Maybe it works now.