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F-Droid 2.0

1465 points · 420 comments · daveoc64

  1. jjice · · focus · HN ↗
    What does the future of something like F-Droid look like once Google does their lock down next year?
    1. pritambaral · · focus · HN ↗
      Since F-Droid (i.e., the repositories, not the app) builds all apps, a practical solution would be for the repositories (i.e., their signing keys) to be recognized by El Goog. Whether and how much help / obstacle the "maybe we do evil" company puts up for / against this is a different question.
      1. rom1v · · focus · HN ↗
        They have to use one key per app, otherwise independent app could end up sharing some permissions (IIRC).
        1. aquariusDue · · focus · HN ↗
          The Emacs version for Android makes uses of something like this IIRC by signing a version of Termux with the same key and distributing it in the same SourceForge repo such that Emacs on Android can access CLI tooling like git for example.
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