When DNF will be able to install flatpack pkgs then we can stop supporting
distro packages for that.

-Igor Gnatenko
On Jun 14, 2016 9:33 PM, "Michael Catanzaro" <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 19:26 +0100, James Hogarth wrote:
> > Does anyone in marketing or development now what the article is
> > referring
> > to and what's going on?
>
> Hi,
>
> There's an article on Ars as well. The "working with Fedora developers"
> claim is probably a misunderstanding on Softpedia's part; it's not
> true, and I doubt Canonical would have said that. What's going on is
> that Canonical beat us to market in development... and now their
> marketing folks have beat us in marketing, too. We of course have zero
> plans to adopt Snappy in Fedora, and in fact multiple Fedora developers
> are working on a competing solution, Flatpak [1] (formerly xdg-app),
> which is also being adopted by GNOME and Endless. Until today, Snappy
> was viewed as Ubuntu-specific, which is why there was so little
> interest in it.
>
> We have not considered, and need to discuss, whether to allow that
> snapcore package into Fedora proper; there's a strong argument to be
> made that we should accept all free software, but doing that could
> undercut our Flatpak effort. If popular upstreams start distributing
> snaps, then we'll probably have to support it, though.
>
> Challenge for the marketing folks: can we get these tech journalism
> sites writing about Flatpak instead? About GNOME Software's new support
> for displaying and installing Flatpaks in F24? Otherwise, I see
> upstreams adopting Snappy and not Flatpak.
>
> Background info: In the Workstation working group, we're currently
> planning to allow replacing RPM packages for graphical apps with
> Flatpaks. We're also planning to remove Fedora packages for selected
> apps that are offered as Flatpaks by upstream. For instance, if
> (hypothetical) Inkscape were to offer a Flatpak download on their web
> site, the Inkscape developers could request that we remove the Inkscape
> Fedora package and display their Flatpak in GNOME Software instead; the
> goal here is to reduce friction between upstream and downstream that
> people complain about so often, while ensuring it's still very easy to
> find and install software that runs reliably on Fedora. I guess we
> could do the same with snaps, if they become sufficiently popular, but
> it'd be quite unfortunate to support two competing desktop
> containerization solutions.
>
> Michael
>
> [1] http://flatpak.org/
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