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/ > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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