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That F-Droid even requires to do the build is one of the reasons I created Discoverium. https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Discoverium/ https://github.com/cygnus
by edgan 1y ago
That F-Droid even requires to do the build is one of the reasons I created Discoverium.
https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Discoverium/ https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Discoverium/
- devrandoom 1y agoSo I should take a binary from a random stranger because trust me bro?
- edgan 1y agoIt is a modified version of Obtainium. You get it from the author via GitHub.
- devrandoom 1y agoIt's still a binary from a stranger. You don't know from which source it was built.
- MYEUHD 1y agoThat F-Droid requires to do the build ensures all apps provided by F-Droid are free software (as in freedom) and proven to be buildable by someone other than the app developer
- edgan 1y agoThe issue is more complicated than that.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoHow so?
- twodave 1y agoDo you mean the overall issue or that F-Droid’s guarantees are arguable? The guarantees may not be the whole discussion, but for many they are the most relevant piece. Edit: or perhaps you mean that isn’t the only way to provide such guarantees, which is the implication I got reading your other replies.
- mschuster91 1y ago> and proven to be buildable by someone other than the app developer Yup. That's a huge, huge issue - IME especially once Java enters the scene. Developers have all sorts of weird stuff in their global ~/.m2/settings.xml that they set up a decade ago and probably don't even think about... real fun when they hand over the project to someone else.