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?
The only thing I really know about F-Droid Basic is that it supports auto updates without manual confirmation on Android 12+, and the start screen is a list of the latest updated apps.
Auto updates are awesome and work completely unattended in the background, just like an app store should work.
Oh ok, great. CalyxOS switched to it so I figured there was a reason. This is good. Thank you.
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).
