On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 5:29 PM Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > > We have entered a new era where software is delivered direct to the user. > Well new for Linux desktop users anyway. Our Discover app now delivers > software from Flatpaks, Snaps and now Appimagehub. > > With Flatpaks I think we just let whoever installed Flatpak on the system say > which sources to use and Discover uses those. Maybe Flathub is the default > source I'm not sure. > > With Snaps that just uses Snap Store which is Canonical's baby and we just > point to that through snapd. > > With Appimagehub we need to make a concious choice whether to turn it on and > point to the appimagehub store by default. > > These choices should take into consideration how the store is run, what > security update policies they have and how the package format manages > security restrictions. > > I don't think we have a way to make these choices currently except at the > discression of what backends distros install and what KNewStuff config files > happen to get shipped with Discover. > > Do we need to make a policy for how these choices are made and be able to > make informed decisions of what to ship to end users or should we just ship > as little as possible and leave it up to the distros and distributors to > enable?
Having a recommendation could make sense, but it's more a policy that the distro should have more than Plasma, given we cannot regulate something that isn't in our control. Aleix
