On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 2:52 AM, Robin Lee <cheese...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> What does it mean for 'Fedora' Flatpaks? > - Flatpaks that run on a Fedora runtime? Then, what's the benifit to > use Fedora runtime instead of freedesktop ones? > - Flatpaks that maintained by Fedora community? Then, why not > encourage people to contribute to Flathub directly? > What is meant here is "a runtime and Flatpaks built out of the Fedora RPMs on Fedora infrastructure". Some advantages this has over building and using Flatpaks on Flathub: - In most cases, it's easier to create a Flatpak from an existing RPM rather than creating a flatpak-builder manifest from scratch. - We're able to reuse the Fedora updates infrastructure and automate rebuilding and releasing Flatpaks and the runtime for security or other bug fixes - Applications with complicated build dependencies are easier to handle. Any RPM in Fedora can be used as a build-time dependency. Only run-time dependencies that aren't already in the runtime need to be rebuilt and bundled, and even there it's a mostly automatic process. (On the other hand, for an upstream application developer who knows nothing about RPMs and specfiles and so forth, and just wants to create a Flatpak of their application, flatpak-builder and Flathub is likely more attractive than creating a Flatpak via Fedora packaging.) It's not exclusive - you can use Flatpaks from Flathub and from this effort together - even on a non-Fedora system. And, of course, you can contribute to both Fedora and Flathub! Owen
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