On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 3:36 AM, Vít Ondruch <vondr...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Dne 7.9.2018 v 03:45 Owen Taylor napsal(a): > > [...] > > If you maintain a graphical application, please try creating a Flatpak of > it. Your experience will vary - some applications are quite easy, but if > your application, for example: > > * Uses qt5-qtwebengine > * Uses many KDE libraries > * Uses many Perl or Python packages > * Uses texlive > > etc, then you may want to wait - we will eventually be creating shared > builds to make bundling these easier. > > > <irony> > Ah, make bundling easier, right. Finally we can bundle! > </irony> > > Honestly, I fail to see how this can be promoted as good for Fedora. It > might be good for upstream but not for Fedora. > To be clear, bundling here is *not* the same as simply including the sources for a library into the application. What bundling means here is including a particular build of a library into the application Flatpak so that it is tested, deployed, and upgraded as a unit. But the library is defined independently in Fedora, and is visible to our tooling. Applications share libraries (beyond those included in the Flatpak runtime) either: - At the source level, by including a reference to a src.fedoraproject.org branch - A the binary level by depending on a module that includes a Flatpak rebuild of the library We haven't yet created such shared modules - we want to get some experience first at creating Flatpaks to figure out what makes sense. But clearly they are useful for dependencies that take a long time to rebuild and are shared by many applications. (On the other hand, of the 3600 dependencies of graphical applications in Fedora, almost half are a dependency of only *one* graphical application.) Owen
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