• dsemy@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    It does help prevent actual malware from being downloaded, though, since upstream developers probably won’t publish malware on Flathub.

    But this is still a half-measure. I don’t understand why Red Hat and Canonical don’t treat this issue seriously; people on Linux are used to assuming software installed from the repos are safe, and yet Snap and Flatpak are being pushed more and more despite their main repositories being potentially unsafe.

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      8 months ago

      Flathub is doing more and more, but stuff like hiding --subset=verified is very bad.

      They simply need to gain critical mass until they can force changes like portals etc.

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      8 months ago

      If you create malware and publish it on flathub, you are the upstream dev. But for sure it helps against duplicate scams.

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      8 months ago

      Fedora has their own flatpak repo built from their own rpms and their own runtime. Flathub has more flatpaks though.