* Owen Taylor: > On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 1:34 PM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > > * Owen Taylor: > > > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 9:48 AM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > * Aoife Moloney: > > > > > There are two types of Flatpak containers - > > > runtimes - which contain unmodified Fedora packages, > > > and applications - which contain Fedora packages rebuilt to relocate > > > them from /usr to /app. > > > > Is this relocation still required? > > > > Yes - the /app vs. /usr split is pretty fundamental to the operation > > of Flatpak, and this Change doesn't propose any changes to how Flatpak > > works, just how Flatpaks are built in Fedora. > > Do you have a pointer where I can read up on the current approach? > > Some references that I found quickly: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/flatpak/concepts/ > https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/basic-concepts.html > > But neither goes into a lot of detail to motivation. I'm certainly > willing to describe things in more detail or look around further if > you still have questions.
As far as I can see, it doesn't explain why we need rebuilds. Toolbx seems to be able achieve something similar without rebuilds. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
