Simon McVittie

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> But the second part of that message is immediately overwritten by the progress indicator, which is a UI bug which I'll report separately. That UI bug is #5204

> flatpak has removed some corrupted dirtree objects and was now able to update whatever that I needed for updating from flatpak If using `sudo flatpak repair` has resolved this...

The `flatpak(1)` CLI is really intended to be a "power-user"-facing interactive UI, more than being something that gets scripted and used as an implementation detail of higher-level software, so making...

> I am running the script inside of a chroot Flatpak apps cannot run successfully inside a chroot, and Flatpak apps and runtimes that require `extra_data` cannot install successfully inside...

> Flatpak apps and runtimes that require extra_data cannot install successfully inside a chroot See also: recent discussion on #3238.

If you don't like the default security policy that Flatpak provides, then creating your own polkit rule like the one in the previous comment (I haven't audited it or anything,...

`--socket=fallback-x11` means exactly "if Wayland is not available, then behave as though `--socket=x11` had been enabled". If you want to prevent an app from contacting X11 even though Wayland is...

Needs work. We can't do `-Werror` globally until these are fixed: ``` app/flatpak-main.c:39:1: error: unused function 'glib_slistautoptr_cleanup_AutoPolkitSubject' [-Werror,-Wunused-function] /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h:463:22: note: expanded from macro 'G_DEFINE_AUTOPTR_CLEANUP_FUNC' static inline void _GLIB_AUTOPTR_SLIST_FUNC_NAME(TypeName) (GSList **_l)...

A general workaround for most weird issues with symlinks is to prefer to use bind-mounts instead of symlinks. Apps that aren't Steam often don't have this problem. Steam is special...

> Can we close this now or do you want to keep it open until a bubblewrap release? I think it would make most sense to keep this open until...