If Flatpaks are reproducible why not build them?

Posted Jul 23, 2025 17:42 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: If Flatpaks are reproducible why not build them? by taladar
Parent article: Catanzaro: Fedora must (carefully) embrace Flathub

> and one done (apparently badly) by Fedora

It's worth mentioning that at least some of that "badly" is because Fedora cannot ship patent-encumbered multimedia codecs.

Posted Jul 25, 2025 20:56 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

If stripping patent-encumbered code degrades the functionality of the application significantly, then Fedora just shouldn't publish it.