Questions on the flatpak updater post

[joao-milheirico]

Sorry for posting like this, couldn't find any other way to message you 😅

Following your flatpak updater timer, I was wondering on

1. the reason you're missing the:

After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target`

On the user flatpaks updater

2. Why did you seperate into two timer? wouldn't the user one suffice on updating all user and system flatpaks? (without the --user flag)

[jwillikers]

Sorry for posting like this, couldn't find any other way to message you 😅

No problem, that's totally fine.

Following your flatpak updater timer, I was wondering on

1. the reason you're missing the:

After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target`

I can't put those targets in the user units because they only exist for system units.
Unfortunately, systemd completely separates the user and system contexts.
You can see this by running the following command.

$ systemctl --user status network-online.target
Unit network-online.target could not be found.

On the user flatpaks updater

2. Why did you seperate into two timer? wouldn't the user one suffice on updating all user and system flatpaks? (without the --user flag)

Good point, I didn't think that part through so much.
It makes sense to skip the --user flag there.
I updated the post to better differentiate between when the system and user units are useful.
Given the default behavior of Flatpak to install system-wide, I think it makes the most sense to use the system-wide one unless your explicitly installing Flatpaks in your user-installation, which is common among Flatpak developers.