On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 3:56 AM, Milan Crha <mcrha@redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 15:52 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
>  * There are a lot of popularly reviewed applications in Fedora that
> are *not* on Flathub.

        Hi,
just out of interest, what with the applications which have their
flatpak scripts, but which do not fit Flathub?

Maybe this had been answered already somewhere, I only missed it, thus
if so, I apologize for repeating the question, but just in case: will
Fedora provide its own Flatpak repository, thus one could rely on
versions of the host dependencies?

Fedora will provide it's own Flatpak repository - with the intent that it will be enabled out-of-the-box on Fedora systems. But anybody running on another operating system could also access the Fedora repository - and given the stats I came up with, some people will likely want to do so.
 
If not, and the plan is to use
Flathub exclusively, will Fedora push the applications there instead of
the upstream/package maintainer in case where the upstream/package
maintainer is not in favor of github, the place where Flathub is
hosted? But I believe Fedora cannot use Flathub this way, because it
cannot guarantee host dependencies there and also because Flathub is
meant to be unrelated to any distribution (I understand it that way at
least).

My initial take on this is that it's OK if a Flatpak in the Fedora repository doesn't work if a host service is missing - imagine a GNOME Boxes Flatpak that only works if qemu/kvm/etc are installed - but it should not work *gracefully*. It shouldn't just segfault and not show a window.

Owen