Is there a way to remove packages from flathub?

Mar 22, 2021 Closed
T
#1

The kate developers don’t want kate to be distributed though flathub because they say there’s too many limitations in the current package.

Is it even possible to remove a package from flathub?

And when removed, will it uninstall from users or they’ll forever have an orphan flatpak installed?

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H
#2
  1. end of life https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Maintenance#end-of-life
  2. then you need to ask the Flathub maintainers to archive the project.

Now the question is what’s the problem with Kate as a flatpak that the maintainers are concerned about? Not knowing basically make it impossible to know if they can be addressed.

T
#3

Well it’s basically impossible to do an IDE in flatpak, i would be surprised if the flatpak maintainers didn’t know about that.

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M
#4
Replying to #3

As far as I know, Visual Studio Code IDE is full-featured in flatpak.

T
#5

I’m super happy if you can provide patches to make kate full-featured in flatpak :slight_smile:

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E
#6

GNOME Builder is an IDE that is optimized to be run inside Flatpak.

C
#7

Flatpaks better not remove from devices it was installed on without the users permission or uninstalling it. That would be a “malicious function” by Stallman’s definition.

B
#8

I believe the issue has been resolved.