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Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks

From:  "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones-AT-redhat.com>
To:  Development discussions related to Fedora <devel-AT-lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject:  Re: F27 System Wide Change: Graphical Applications as Flatpaks
Date:  Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:44:18 +0100
Message-ID:  <20170714084418.GO17340@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 03:31:30PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
>  F29: packagers (of graphical applications) must create Flatpaks of
>       their applications if possible. They *may* keep standard RPM
>       packaging.

At least we see where this is going.

If RPMs of the graphical application work fine now, what on earth is
the point of forcing packagers to make Flatpaks?  Sandboxing isn't one
of them - as already explained, sandboxing is orthogonal to packaging.

Rich.

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