Hi, thanks requesting an improvement to Mageia.

I agree that the community managed flathub repo is not integrated by default in Mageia.

Moreover, the spec file for building flatpak explicitly set an empty system-wide remote repo.
But, to circumvent this, please use a GUI portal like Discover in Plasma that it has a toggle in "Configuration" to set "flathub" as user repo.

We can't support it in rpmdrake nor in urpmi to manage flatpak.


@Olav, can we support to integrate Out-of-the-box flathub repo in our default installation of flatpak?

CC: (none) => olav

I am not convinced it's a good idea to enable Flathub out of the box, but if there's no terribly strong objections against it, I *could* do it.

Summary: Include Flatpak by default => Enable Flathub by default for Flatpak

(In reply to Neal Gompa from comment #2)
> I am not convinced it's a good idea to enable Flathub out of the box, but if
> there's no terribly strong objections against it, I *could* do it.

As long as Discover opens his main window with a "Featured Applications" page, it relies on flathub repository.
Please also see:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27647

See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27647

Probably best to discuss this on dev mailing list? gnome-software seems to prefer flatpaks over regular packages. That's a bit annoying. It seems fine to me to enable, there's various bits on Flathub that isn't in Mageia but overlook something someone else might know. And once you use loads of Flathub apps the space requirement isn't that crazy anyway. 

It's also good to point out the things that do not work nicely because Flathub isn't enabled, e.g. the main window of Discover relying on Flathub.

After several tests,

Discover and Gnome-software do really prefer flatpak over RPMS.
So this is a no go.

The main window of Discover is too integrated to display flathub apps. But, even if flathub is enabled, it remains broken on last M8RC.

So, the preferably solution is to add a wiki page and document how to add flathub to such software.

Keywords: (none) => FOR_RELEASENOTES8
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX

(In reply to Aurelien Oudelet from comment #5)
> After several tests,
> 
> Discover and Gnome-software do really prefer flatpak over RPMS.
> So this is a no go.

Shit, that is pretty serious i think?
If users that have enabled flatpak repos may install from there instead of from Mageia, not knowing Mageia provide the apps?

This may be worth a bug on itself.

For now, i put it in Errata, with a link to comment#5.


> The main window of Discover is too integrated to display flathub apps. But,
> even if flathub is enabled, it remains broken on last M8RC.

Please elaborate, for Errata.


> So, the preferably solution is to add a wiki page and document how to add
> flathub to such software.

Isnt this enough?
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Ways_to_install_programs#Flatpak

Keywords: FOR_RELEASENOTES8 => (none)
CC: (none) => fri

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_8_Errata#Flatpak

(In reply to Morgan Leijström from comment #6)
> (In reply to Aurelien Oudelet from comment #5)
> > After several tests,
> > 
> > Discover and Gnome-software do really prefer flatpak over RPMS.
> > So this is a no go.
> 
> Shit, that is pretty serious i think?
> If users that have enabled flatpak repos may install from there instead of
> from Mageia, not knowing Mageia provide the apps?
> 
Yeah I don't know why. Perhaps because my tests were done when DNF repos were not properly set for Mageia 8. But today it is the same. Discover/GNOMe Software uses PackageKit which uses DNF as backend.
> 
> 
> > The main window of Discover is too integrated to display flathub apps. But,
> > even if flathub is enabled, it remains broken on last M8RC.
> 
> Please elaborate, for Errata.

See screenshot in attachment 12014 [details]. As soon as Plasma Discover is installed, try a launch. The main window wants to display Featured Applications and it can't...
This is still broken on M8 RC1 public and with flatpak activated with flathub repo, like it should be... 
> 
> > So, the preferably solution is to add a wiki page and document how to add
> > flathub to such software.
> 
> Isnt this enough?
> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Ways_to_install_programs#Flatpak
This is OK.

Spawned Bug 28354 - Plasma Discover and Gnome-software prefer Flatpak over Mageia RPM packages