[sword-devel] Fedora packager?

[Aaron Rainbolt]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu> wrote:
>
> On Thu Jul 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM CEST, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
> > This significantly raises the difficulty of installing those
> > applications for many users. To my awareness, none of the major
> > distros (Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, or openSUSE I think) have Flatpak
> > with Flathub enabled by default.
>
> I believe openSUSE does, and let’s hope [1] that this craziness
> will stop and Fedora will support regular Flathub. Yes, I
> understand that this would be problem on Debian and related
> distros, because of Snap. I still believe that adding a simple
> instructions for different distros would outweigh the need to
> maintain same packages multiple times.
>
> Blessings,
>
> Matěj
>
> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1030936/

It's worth noting that I'm in the Flathub room on Matrix, and the
referenced blog post was received very poorly by many individuals
there (some of whom appear to be the Flathub maintainers). My hopes of
this actually working are... relatively slim.

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