On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 15:40 -0400, Ben Rosser wrote: >> This is a slight tangent, but by "remove Fedora packages", do you >> mean >> actually remove them from the distribution entirely or simply not >> show the >> packaged version in e.g. GNOME Software in favor of the upstream >> Flatpak? >> The latter makes sense to me, the former seems potentially >> controversial. > > I was thinking remove the Fedora package. What's the point in > maintaining a secret Fedora package for a graphical app, when we're > going to be presenting a different version of that app to users? And as > Josh says, this would also create confusion regarding where to report > bugs, and also confusion when users have two different sets of bugs > depending on whether you use a Fedora package or the upstream Flatpak. > But maybe we will need to keep the Fedora packages to support spins, > e.g. we probably don't want to start removing packages before KDE grows > support for Flatpaks in its graphical installer.
one small extra wrinkle, which I didn't notice anyone mention yet: removal of any package avail on all arch's in favour of 3rd party flakpak that are only available for x86 is a bit annoying for other archs ;-) BR, -R > There's no plan to systematically go around removing Fedora packages in > favor of Flatpaks; rather, we plan to do this on a case-by-case basis > at the request of upstreams that have developed Flatpaks and want those > Flatpaks to be available in Fedora. Package maintainers would be > allowed to dispute the change, again on a case-by-case basis, but I > don't expect that to happen often. We're also planning to allow third- > party RPMs to replace Fedora-provided RPMs following the same > procedure. > > Full details at [1], just keep in mind this is a WIP document in the > preproposal stage; i.e. we were not planning to propose it on this list > yet. > > [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Third_party_software_proposal > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
