This is necessary for the toolbox script to work inside the toolbox
container [1]. Having the flatpak-spawn command, provided by the
flatpak-xdg-utils package, readily available in the base image makes
for a better out of the box experience.
The flatpak-xdg-utils package is not available on Fedora 28. Given
that Fedora 28 is getting close to the end of its life cycle, it's
probably not worth doing all the paperwork to offer the package there.
[1] Commit 5b3d234c9ehttps://github.com/debarshiray/toolbox/pull/54
The "fedora" prefix was used because this project was specifically
incubated to make it easier to hack on Fedora Silverblue. That and the
mix of upstream technologies (ie., Buildah and Podman) made it uniquely
"Fedora".
However, over time it has gotten clear that other groups, currently
Fedora downstreams like RHEL, are interested in it too. It won't be
surprising if in future it transcends the Fedora universe altogether.
Moreover, this project was inspired by coreos/toolbox [1]. There are
good reasons and enough interest to have a unified toolbox project
that addresses the needs of both Fedora CoreOS and Silverblue.
Therefore, it is best to drop the "fedora" prefix and call the whole
thing just "toolbox".
No extra effort was made to retain compatibility with the older name
due to the project's young age. Its userbase is limited to the earliest
of early adopters, and the benefits of a clean break outweigh the
loss of compatibility.
The OCI images and the toolbox container still retain the "fedora"
prefix to disambiguate them from their counterparts from other
operating systems.
[1] https://github.com/coreos/toolboxhttps://github.com/debarshiray/toolbox/issues/8
It would be good to have Dockerfiles for multiple Fedora versions, and
possibly even other operating systems like Red Hat Enterprise Linux or
CentOS, so that people can use the toolbox on different host OSes.
In the future, it would be nice to have multiple toolbox containers
corresponding to different OSes exist side by side. One could then
have a Fedora 29 environment on a Fedora 28 host and so on.
