I’ve only loosely heard about some turbulence in the fdroid community so what is the difference here? Any notable changes or reasons for the changes?

  • @timbuck2themoonOP
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    27 months ago

    Oh ok, great. CalyxOS switched to it so I figured there was a reason. This is good. Thank you.

    • Chewy
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      7 months ago

      Iirc CalyxOS ships F-Droid by default and did include the F-Droid privileged extension, which enables unattended updates. This extension has to be installed in the system, which isn’t possible on stock ROMs.

      They probably saw F-Droid Basic as a solution to no longer having to ship the privileged extension. I don’t think CalyxOS is shipping Aurora Store by default, but it also needed a privileged extension (until they supported the new unattended update mechanism two years ago).