On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 3:41 PM,  <nicolas.mail...@laposte.net> wrote:
>
> De: "Owen Taylor"
>
>> But I want to be clear that there is no *proposal* on the
>> table to ship things Flatpak only, and *no proposed timescale*. And
>> there won't be until we know how the tools work out for packagers, how
>> Flatpak usage works out for users, and we have a significant body of
>> Fedora packages built as Flatpaks to look at things like installed size
>> and network usage.
>
> Then I'm glad there is absolutely no plan to preempt flatpack technical 
> assessment by shipping one or more GNOME apps as flatpack-only, leaving 
> Fedora users for whom flatpack does not work yet behind, and bypassing 
> distribution consensus processes.
>
> This kind of action would be really divisive¹, especially while 
> simultaneously seeking Fedora endorsement.
>
> Best regards,
>
> ¹ Those shortcuts rarely end well. Even when the missing bits are eventually 
> added, users have a long memory of being left in the dust because their 
> use-cases are deemed "wrong" or "uninteresting".
>

I think this already happened. Applications like GNOME Recipes are
only available via Flatpaks. The Workstation WG did not package it for
Fedora 26. I don't know if other GNOME applications are in a similar state. :(



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