Re:Towards a Reproducible F-Droid
by codewiz on Friday January 20, 2023 @02:46PM
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It's surprising that Flathub and Canonical's Snapcraft aren't involved in the Reproducible Builds initiative, since they're important distribution channels for end-user applications that could read your ssh keys and wipe your hard-drive if the distribution chain is compromised.
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Those projects were created because maintainers want things as easy as NPM because the traditional path requires care, signing, and process. Security was never the goal.
Re:Towards a Reproducible F-Droid
by Vogtinator on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:33PM
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IMO you're exaggerating a bit, but there's quite some truth in there. Flatpak has some security features and is by itself not a bad design, but the ecosystem's current state isn't really utilizing those.
Snap is a whole other can of worms. The ecosystem is like canonical's personal play store/app store.