| Description | Kicksecure APT and Flatpak Repository Configuration
Configuring APT and Flatpak sources:
- Includes Debian APT repositories (main, updates, backports, fasttrack,
security)
- Incorporates Debian APT components (main, contrib, non-free,
non-free-firmware)
- Integrates the Flathub repository (verified and floss subsets only)
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Flatpak:
- Official Flathub repository only.
- Uses subset verified_floss, which means only verified applications and
freedom software can be installed by default.
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Provides configuration files:
- /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources for APT sources
- /etc/flatpak/remotes.d/flathub.flatpakrepo for Flatpak sources
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A Discussion on Distribution Maintenance Strategies:
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The more standard
way would indeed be populating /etc/apt/sources.list at install or build time
and leaving /etc/apt/sources.list.d alone.
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The idea of managing
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources for the user is, the security-focused
distribution maintainers can decide when it is a better "change stable to
oldstable", "keep wheezy as long as needed to work out [eventual!] issues
that would break during upgrade to jessie" and such. |