Re: [libreplanet-discuss] F-Droid's Antifeatures

[Daniel Martí]

On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 12:27:05 +0100, Fabio Pesari wrote:
> I think that at the very least, F-Droid should distribute the fully free
> programs from their main repository and if they really want to offer
> programs with "Antifeatures", they should be distributed from a separate
> repository that must be manually enabled (or they could ask the users
> during the first run). They already do it for the "Guardian Project"
> repository and this wouldn't be much different.

Anti-feature filtering is the way to do this:

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/564

Multiple repos is not only harder to use and maintain, but also more
limited. You can either show all apps with anti-features, or none of
them. Filtering lets you choose which anti-features you are OK with.

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