On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 1:34 PM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:
> * Owen Taylor: > > > On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 9:48 AM Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > * Aoife Moloney: > > > > > There are two types of Flatpak containers - > > > runtimes - which contain unmodified Fedora packages, > > > and applications - which contain Fedora packages rebuilt to relocate > > > them from /usr to /app. > > > > Is this relocation still required? > > > > Yes - the /app vs. /usr split is pretty fundamental to the operation > > of Flatpak, and this Change doesn't propose any changes to how Flatpak > > works, just how Flatpaks are built in Fedora. > > Do you have a pointer where I can read up on the current approach? > Some references that I found quickly: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/flatpak/concepts/ https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/basic-concepts.html But neither goes into a lot of detail to motivation. I'm certainly willing to describe things in more detail or look around further if you still have questions. > I'm concerned that this is just like Software Collections with a > different path, which I believe where previously banned in Fedora (and > are generally a huge hassle on the releng side, I think). The big distinction here is that there is no idea that these RPMs will be installed directly on a Fedora system. They are used only when building Flatpak containers. So I don't think there is much similarity to SCL's other than "built with a different prefix". - Owen
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