I was just experimenting after poking at this bug http
s://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1847265, and I found some
interesting behavior.
This is how to reproduce it:
1) Use the Cinnamon live CD
2) Install a random flatpak (note, since this is on live you have to deal
with the space issue first)
sudo ostree --repo=/var/lib/flatpak/repo/ config set
core.min-free-space-size 0MB
sudo flatpak install org.gnome.Mahjongg
3) Remove xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
In step 3 it will also want to remove flatpak, but in step 2 I made a
conscious choice to install a flatpak - so this will then mean I lose
access to that flatpak I had installed. This can of course be prevented by
doing "dnf mark install flatpak", but that is another manual step you have
to do.
This leads to the question: how can this be handled? When a user uses
Flatpak to install a program, I would assume their expectation is that
flatpak shouldn't be removed unless the user requests it explicitly (so not
this behavior). I guess there are 2 ways to really fix this:
1) Mark flatpak as being user installed once at least one flatpak is
installed.
2) Add flatpak as an explicit program on all live CDs it is included on
right now.
The cleanest would probably be 1, but can that even be done?
-Ian
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