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A proposal to change how Fedora handles Flatpak packages |
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The Fedora project has had a long struggle with finding a balance in terms of providing functionality users expect versus attempting to avoid licensing restrictions. The Fedora project strives to provide free and open source software only and it also tries to avoid patent and license restrictions. However, many users want to be able to install a wide range of software including popular items which are limited by patents, media licensing, and non-free firmware. The result is often users enabling third-party repositories or Fedora providing packages which lack functionality users expect. Michael Catanzaro recently published an opinion piece in a GNOME blog post that calls for Fedora to stop providing limited versions of popular applications and to enable Flathub directly to give users the software they expect. Catanzaro writes: "Feedback from Fedora's user base has been clear: among users who like Flatpaks, Flathub is extremely popular. When installing a Flatpak application, users generally expect it to come from Flathub. In contrast, many users of Fedora Flatpaks do not install them intentionally, but rather by accident, only because they are the preferred software source in GNOME Software. Users are often frustrated to discover that Fedora Flatpaks are not supported by upstream software developers and have a different set of bugs than upstream Flatpaks do. It is also common for users and even Fedora developers to entirely remove the Fedora Flatpak application source."
The blog post goes on to link to a Fedora change proposal which suggests filtering out Fedora's custom, limited Flatpak repository from the software centre. The proposal lists the issues having a custom, restricted Flatpak repository introduces. The proposal has, at the time of writing, a 78% approval rating from user feedback.
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