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Why so many permissions? #104

Closed renatobellotti closed 2 years ago

renatobellotti commented 2 years ago

I have some questions regarding the permissions. Are all of them really needed?

cpba commented 2 years ago

It's all relative.

--device=all was added in order to allow access to usb devices, such as for arduino development and other common use cases. Whether it's needed depends on what you do.

--talk-name=org.freedesktop.secrets without this atom won't be able to talk to your keyring. Atom would still work if you were to disable it, but you'd have to manually manage your keys (and possibly silence a couple errors that pop up, I can't quite remember)

--env=ELECTRON_TRASH=this-is-a-workaround this is not a permission, it just sets an env variable to a bogus value. Presumably to fix some issue, but I can't tell you what it was or whether it's still relevant. For what it's worth, here's the commit where it was added: https://github.com/flathub/io.atom.Atom/commit/39e896ad293ac79be1871bd2f1ff272c461c3903

renatobellotti commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the clarifications! I'm not very familiar with Flatpak, and device=all is mentioned to be used with cameras, so I thought asking might not hurt. Bit now it makes sense.