On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 5:15 PM Owen Taylor <otay...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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".
Great! This summary let me get the point.
>
> 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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