Re: All stable flatpak builds moved to flathub
- From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>, desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: All stable flatpak builds moved to flathub
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 13:21:45 +0100
On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 12:11 +0100, Alexandre Franke wrote:
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com
wrote:
The goal of flathub (https://flathub.org/) is to be a single
location
where you can find builds of the latest stable version of linux
desktop
applications, ideally maintained by the upstream author. That way
the
experience for flatpak users is much nicer, just add one remote and
you
can then find all apps via e.g. gnome-software.
Such centralisation means a single point of failure. By supporting
the
addition of remotes, flatpak seemed to have potential for
decentralisation. Is some kind of federation or other way to address
this issue on the roadmap?
Flatpak itself is completely decentralized, in that anyone can (and do)
create repos that anyone can install from. All these are on equal level
in the CLI and in terms of features, and none are installed by default.
However, this leads to a pretty crappy user experience both for users
who have to hunt for trustworthy repos all over the net, and for
developers who each have to play sysadmin and maintain the
infrastructure for a repo.
So, the middle-road we've chosen for flatpak is to have one repo that
has some level of review/testing that has most apps, so that people can
get started easily.
I'm not sure what you mean by "federation", but we don't plan to ever
have one locally defined remote name resolve to a multitude of
independent app sources. We are however working on distributing that
repo, so that you can have e.g. a local, partial mirror, even ones
discovered via avahi. However, each remote name is tied to one GPG key,
so the source of the original builds are always one entity.
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