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| 2022-06-29 |
Fedora plans to provide unfiltered access to Flathub |
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The Fedora distribution currently ships with support for Flatpak packages and offers some access to Flatpak packages in the Flathub repository. Currently only specific, approved Flatpak packages are available by default but this may be changing for Fedora 37. "Fedora includes a flatpak repo definition for Flathub in the fedora-flathub-remote package. So far, this remote was filtered by an allowlist that only made a limited subset of software from Flathub available. We've been told that it is ok for us to remove the filtering and make all of Flathub available.
The filtering mechanism itself will still be there, and it will be possible for us to reinstate a filter via a package update, should the need arise in the future.
The Flathub remote is available to users who opt-in to enabling third-party software repositories in either GNOME Initial Setup or GNOME Software. Users who do not opt in will not see anything from Flathub.
In case of overlaps, GNOME Software will prefer Fedora flatpaks over Flathub flatpaks. It is always possible for the user to manually select a different source for individual applications." The change proposal points out the current, filtered approach has not been popular: "the filtered Flathub has not been popular with users. Users have been confused and displeased that our Flathub remote contains only a small subset of Flathub, rather than the full Flathub. Dropping the filter will resolve this criticism." |
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